[BIGLOOK]

Visa applications are submitted to State Dept but approved by the country that one wants to travel to. State only warns of risk or in the case of war or a breakdown in diplomatic relations, denies travel.

Pakistan was a 'warning' area for years....maybe a decade. Ali Bhutto was convicted and sentenced to death in '73 or 74, his successor, Haq, died in a suspicious plane crash along with his general staff, so the region was in political turmoil. Not your ideal travel destination for tourists, exchange students or businessmen.

Did I mention that Benezir Bhutto, Ali's daughter, bought the farm there recently too?

[Jet Jaguar]

Roger that;

I keep a good memory of the past and current events.

[null and void]

Not your ideal travel destination for tourists, exchange students or businessmen.

But but but the NYT article made it seem like a little bit o' Heaven!

[MilspecRob]

Pakistan was a 'warning' area for years....

So is Israel, lot of bad stuff happens there too