Sushma Swaraj asks Indian mission to grant medical visa to Pakistani girl

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today directed the Indian High Commission in Islamabad to grant medical visa immediately to a five-year-old Pakistani girl, suffering from eye cancer, for treatment in India.The child's parents had sought Swaraj's help.

"There is a request for medical visa for 5-year-old child Anamta Farrukh who is suffering from eye cancer for her treatment in India. I have asked @Indiain Pakistan to issue medical visa for treatment of the child in India immediately," she said on Twitter.

She also said another Pakistani child requiring bone marrow



transplant was being given visa for treatment in India."We are giving medical visa for the bone marrow transplant surgery of your son in India. I pray for his early recovery here," Swaraj said to the father of the boy, identified as Shehriyar.

Swaraj announced that two Pakistani men were also being medical visas for liver transplant.

"We have approved medical visa for the liver transplant of your father Syed Baseer Imam Zaidi and pray for his long life," she said.Zaidi's son Syed Adnan requested her to facilitate visa approval to his father.