UAE: 'No visa ban for Pakistani citizens', official clarifies to Dawn amid reports An official in the UAE Embassy in Pakistan refuted reports that the UAE has not been issuing visas to Pakistanis The UAE has not banned visas for Pakistani nationals, it was reported by a Pakistani daily on Thursday. Quoting a senior official in the UAE Embassy in Pakistan, who wished not to be named, the diplomat told the Pakistani newspaper Dawn that “there’s no ban on visas for Pakistani citizens.”This came as Salman Chaudhry, additional interior secretary, told a Pakistan Senate committee, that the UAE has not been issuing visas to Pakistanis, but only to diplomatic and blue passport holders, the daily said. Khaleej Times has reached out to the UAE authorities for a statement. Pakistani diaspora is the second largest expatriate community in the UAE with nearly 1.7 million people living across the Emirates, mostly in Dubai and Northern Emirates.The UAE and Pakistan have close diplomatic, cult...