NO PLAN TO ADD West Pakistan TO TRAVEL BAN LIST, SAYS TRUMP ADMIN
Islamabad: The Trump administration has no plan to ban Pakistani voters from travel to the US result of national capital is providing the info they have to vet a traveler.
According to the Dawn, in recent briefings to various media retailers, White House officials conjointly aforesaid the administration had no set up to add different countries to the list of seven Muslim countries whose voters were barred from travel or migrating to the United States of America.
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer explained that Afghanistan, Pakistan and Lebanon were among the countries that were providing the info required to scrutinise travellers. But he warned that if this cooperation modified, these or other countries might conjointly be additional to the list.
The US Department of native land Security , however, was more categorical in reassuring the forty non-designated Muslim countries that Spicer mentioned in his statement.
“Importantly, these seven countries are the solely countries to that the pause on entry applies. No other countries face such treatment. Nor have any other countries been known as warranting future inclusion at now,” the DHS said in a statement.
Another White House added that reports of prohibition travellers from different countries were simply rumours. “There’s nothing imminent that I’m aware of,” the spokesperson additional.
Other White House officers aforesaid that even the Obama administration had issues with the seven countries currently facing the travel ban as they were not providing the info required to scrutinise their voters.
But a passage in the Jan twenty seven government order leaves the choice to expand the list open, causing worries and rumours across the Muslim world.
“At any point when submitting the list delineated in section (e) of this section, the secretary of state or the secretary of homeland security might taste the president the names of any further countries suggested for similar treatment,” it said.
But the DHS, while ruling out the chance of increasing the list within the close to future, said the aliens affected by the 90-day pause on travel were conjointly obtaining “case-by-base exceptions and waivers, as outlined in President Donald Trump’s government order, “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the u. s..”
