India and Pakistan’s relations aren’t exactly chai-and-pakoda cosy these days, and so getting a visa can be trickier than peeling a mango with a spoon. Leisure trips? Ah, c’mon – you must be joking! But some folks can find perfectly legal ways to land in India without visas – and it’s smooth sailing all the way.
Meet Pakistani entrepreneur Waqas Hassan, who cracked the code using an age-old airline hack: layovers. Flying from Singapore to Saudi Arabia, Hassan booked a flight with an Indian carrier that came with a six-hour pit stop in Mumbai, neatly sidestepping the usual visa hurdles.
No cloak-and-dagger stuff – just a perfectly valid transit trick. The catch? He couldn’t leave the airport, so it was more ‘airport tourism‘ than a proper…
