Originally Posted by
d3vski
Secondly, you want to do India and Pakistan on the same trip? Have you considered that one country may not issue a visa if they realise that you are also visiting the other. India and Pakistan have a lot of distrust for other.
Originally Posted by
dubbin
This is an excellent question and may mean that the trip needs to be rethought. Does anyone have experience of this?
Yes. Pakistan will cheerfully stamp a visa into a passport with an Indian visa, so long as you are NOT of Pakistani or Indian heritage. India will ask you loads of questions, and will grudgingly stamp you up eventually. When you arrive in India, with a Pakistan visa, you may well be given the third degree. It can be done, but it is massively painful and I certainly don't recommend it, unless you work for a UN body, or something similar.
I've got multiple passports, so I keep Pakistan and India visas separate, until the India visa passport is close to expiry and then I may allow a Pakistan visa in it.
The UKPA recognises this as a problem area. If you can supply confirmed travel details, a letter of explanation and a wadge of money, you are allowed a second passport for precisely this scenario. Just don't do what one senior MP did a few years back: arrive in New Delhi and present a pristine passport with just one visa in it, the one for Pakistan.
If you have a choice, get your Pakistan visa done in Glasgow. They have a beautiful building there and a "quick chat" with the very affable Consul General in his rather nice office is a delight.