US President Donald Trump has indicated that Pakistan will be one of those countries whose citizens will have to go through an “extreme vetting” process before entering the United States.
In an interview to ABC News on Wednesday morning, Trump said that he was going to sign an order banning at least some Muslims from entering the United States in two hours. However, it was delayed apparently because of a huge public backlash.
The draft executive order published in US media suggested that visa applications from seven countries deemed a terrorist threat — Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen — will be halted for 30 days.
According to Dawn, when the interviewer, David Muir, asked why Afghanistan, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia were not on the ban list, Trump said: “We’re going to have extreme vetting in all cases. And I mean extreme. And we’re not letting people in if we think there’s even a little chance of some problem.”
President Trump’s plans to establish a registry for collecting data about Muslims living in the US has also created a huge uproar in the country and a former secretary of state Madeleine Albright said that she too would register as a Muslim if Muslims were asked to do so.
“I was raised Catholic, became Episcopalian and found out later my family was Jewish. I stand ready to register as Muslim in solidarity,” Albright, the first woman US secretary of state, tweeted.
