F-1 visas for Pakistani students are soaring amid a global decline, according to US government data. Visas granted to Pakistani students climbed 44.3% in the first half of Fiscal Year 2025 (October 2024 to March 2025) amid improving relations between the two countries. The number of US visas granted to Pakistani students in current year is on track to reach 5,800 which is an all-time high.  The number of visas granted to Indian students declined 44.5%, compared to  20% fewer US visas…

"We are not proxies for India in the US", wrote Suhag Shukla, co-founder and executive director of the Hindu American Foundation (HAF) in a recent article for The Print, an Indian media outlet.  This was written in response to Indian diplomat-politician Shashi Tharoor's criticism that the Indian-American diaspora was largely silent on the Trump administration policies hurting India. …