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Source: http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/jul2003-daily/07-07-2003/main/main5.htm
Seven Pakistani Businessmen Visit Israel
(Jang-Pakistan) - Nusrat Javeed At least seven businessmen from Pakistan discreetly visited Israel in the last week of June after attending the World Economic Forum in Jordan. On a Pakistani passport, you can travel to "all countries except Israel." Yet some people have been occasionally slipping into that country in the name of visiting some historic sites, also considered "holy" by Muslims. A few would hunt for business and trade prospects through third countries. Pakistani columnist Ikram Sehgal admits to having come across many Israelis at seminars and conferences who "do not have the horns they are supposed to have, in fact one finds them very logical and correct." "What stops us from having dialogue and commerce the way we have with Taiwan?" wonders the columnist. He then reveals that he savored the "rare privilege of praying at Al-Aqsa Mosque."