It is going to be tough for ordinary Pakistanis.
Pakistani with bomb residue on hands arrested in Chile
A 28-year-old Pakistani man with explosive residue on his hands was arrested at the U.S. Embassy in Chile, national police said.
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/11/pakistani-with-bomb-residue-on-hands-caught-in-chile/
The man, who had been in Chile since January, was applying for a visa to the United States, said Lt. Col. Fernando Vera of the Carabineros, Chile’s uniformed national police.
The suspect was arrested Monday at the embassy and turned over to Chilean authorities.
“The embassy has their security procedures in place and their security measures were activated and that required the support of our personnel,” Vera said. “Our personnel is on site and, according to agreements and protocols, the individual has been in custody of the interior minister.”
A senior State Department official confirmed the arrest, telling CNN “we found traces of explosives residue and the man was turned over to the Chilean police.”
CNN Chile, CNN’s partner network, said the national police identified the suspect as Mohammed Said. Dawn, an independent Pakistani news organization, said the suspect’s name is Mohamed Said Uf Rejaman.
The suspect was doing an internship in tourism at a Chilean hotel, CNN Chile said.
He is scheduled to be charged Tuesday with violating Chile’s law on weapons and explosives, CNN Chile reported.
Police found traces of a TNT derivative on the suspect’s hands, cell phone, bag and documentation, the Dawn newspaper in Pakistan reported.
The suspect told police he did not know where the residue had come from and he was only at the embassy to renew his visa, Dawn said.
The incident occurred a week after Faisal Shahzad - a Pakistani-born naturalized U.S. citizen - was arrested in connection with a failed car bombing in New York’s Times Square.
