KARACHI -- Pakistan's overseas laborers are paying the price for one of their government's foreign policy decisions now that the United Arab Emirates has banned them from receiving work visas. Islamabad lost favor with Gulf states after it tried to align itself with a Turkey-Iran-Malaysia bloc challenging Saudi Arabia's leadership of the Muslim world.
International relations
Pakistanis pay price as Islamabad joins Turkey-Iran-Malaysia bloc
UAE blocks key source of income as it refuses to issue work visas to Pakistanis