ZAGREB, Nov 6 (Hina) - The Healthy Society - Multiculture association on Wednesday urged Interior Minister Sime Lucin to punish those responsible for the non-issuing of visas to Pakistani musicians.
ZAGREB, Nov 6 (Hina) - The Healthy Society - Multiculture
association on Wednesday urged Interior Minister Sime Lucin to
punish those responsible for the non-issuing of visas to Pakistani
musicians. #L#
In an open letter to Lucin, the association which organised the
concert of the Rizwan - Muazzam Qawwali group from Pakistan recalls
that the performance was not held because the Interior Ministry
declined to issue visas the day before the concert for security
reasons.
The association says such a decision is unprofessional and absurd
as the Pakistani musicians were granted visas in Russia and played
in Moscow just after the capital was the victim of a terrorist
attack.
Healthy Society - Multiculture expects Lucin to launch an
investigation and punish the person who was responsible for the
visa denial.
The Interior Ministry will thus distance itself from
interpretations mentioning racism and the inciting of national and
religious intolerance, and restore the seriously tarnished
reputation of state institutions, read the letter.
Lucin is also asked to urge the government to officially invite the
Pakistani group to perform in Croatia.
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