Please see item#5 in this link:
http://www.dawn.com/2003/01/04/welcome.htm
Refusing Visa’s for people interested in a dialogue will not solve the problems. Why not let established academicians, if they are proven to have no espionage or other negative agenda, come and discuss?
This is the first time India denied visa, shocked Asma Jehangir.
HR activists Denied visa: New Indian rule
NEW DELHI, Jan 4: Leading human rights activists and intellectuals from Pakistan, including Asma Jehangir, have become the first victims of a recently introduced visa restriction by India for Pakistani visitors aimed ostensibly at checking cross-border terrorism, newspapers and diplomats said on Friday.
Jehangir and her colleagues I.A.Rehman and Mubashir Hussain, regular visitors to India as part of a widely acclaimed Track-II diplomacy, were denied visas to attend the Asian Social Forum conference, SAF sources said.
“The Pakistan delegation to the Asian Social Forum here, headed by Asma Jehangir, leading women’s and human rights activist, has been denied visa by India,” The Hindu newspaper reported from Hyderbabad. It quoted Nirmala Deshpande, Gandhian activist, as saying this at the opening plenary session of the ASF.
The announcement was greeted with a chorus of “shame, shame”, by a large number of delegates, The Hindu said.
“A disappointed Ms Deshpande said the Pakistani delegates would not be able to come as they had been denied visas by India. She expressed the hope that the people’s voice would reach the powers that be in Delhi and it would be forced not to repeat it,” the newspaper said.
A Pakistani diplomat condemned India’s decision to stop visas for the internationally renowned rights workers.
“We have always opposed restrictions on visits by intellectuals,” the diplomat said. He, however, declined to say if Pakistan would respond with a stricter visa regime of its own for Indian visitors in response to a recent Indian decision to curb the movement and visas for Pakistani visitors.
having mutual exchanges of writers, social activists, scientists and business and community leaders is important, especially for india and pakistan.
Indeed. Politicans do not solve problems because they are just interested in posturing. These activists who have nothing to lose can actually make a huge difference in conflicts.
Immature move by silly Indians. 
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having mutual exchanges of writers, social activists, scientists and business and community leaders is important, especially for india and pakistan.
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Vajoo must take lessons from you.
seems you've given up on musharaf already?
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seems you've given up on musharaf already?
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..and how did you assume that?
Refusing visa to Asma Jehangir was absolutely idiotic and irresponsible move by Govt of India.
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..and how did you assume that?
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didn't assume anything. simple tit for tat - silly though.
Now, you are backing off from your own comments. 
Tit for Tat? What? Dear, the steps has been taken by Indians, inspired from Uncle Sam. What can I say more, you already described as, Silly.
yup - as silly as your 'vajoo should' comment. glad.
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yup - as silly as your 'vajoo should' comment. glad.
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Nah, it wasn't silly at all. Vajoo, nick for Vajpayee.
May i add a coment i am a Pakistan National studying in England, I have traveled pretty much all over the globe but somehow i have never wanted to visit "India"..
Hmm...
The proof is in the pudding who cares!!!
PAKISTAN ZINDABAD
tut! tut! you haven't all over the word. you'd say anything to make a point?