US immigration office grills Pak scribes

Pak journalists covering Musharraf's visit to US, were grilled by US immigration for nearly two hours in New York.

It seems America's immigration and naturalisation service doesn't give damn about President Pervez Musharraf's "friendly relationship" with US President George W Bush or that the two countries are hand-in-glove in the global war against terror.

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This was starkly evident when Pakistani journalists covering Musharraf's six-day visit to the US, were grilled by the US immigration for nearly two hours in New York.

According to the Daily Times, the immigration officials didn't even spare two of them who had recently visited the country, one of them on a State Department-sponsored visit.

In the words of one journalist, they were given "special attention."

Those grilled included Daily Times Islamabad bureau chief Rana Qaiser, Rana Tahir of Jang, Sarmad Salik of The News and Riffat Saeed of Takbir.