Globally the 9/11 attacks in the US and, for India, the 26/11 carnage handed restrictive visa and travel policies to the neo-cons in the West and their kindred souls in South Asia. David Headley, born to a Pakistani father, reared in the US and his soul possessed by jehad, is a representative nightmare for border control regimes. The response of the Indian home ministry was draconian. They withdrew the residual discretionary powers of granting visa (to even eminent Pakistanis) from the Indian heads of mission, made all cases of Pakistanis prior reference and all actual and assumed Pakistanis suspect. For my son’s wedding, his London-residing Pakistani friend Amir, his wife and little daughter got visas months after the event.