<h3><br />''</h3>The US has denied visit visas to three senior Pakistani officials for not taking back Pakistani immigrants who are illegally residing in America. <br />''<br />''This was disclosed by Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi in Islamabad yesterday while briefing the National Assembly Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs. <br />''<br />''<span style="color: #222222;">Washington's move came after a warning was issued late last month by the US that the visa sanction policy might also withhold visas of Pakistani senior officials and not just of ordinary travellers. <br />''<br />''The decision was taken under a law according to which countries refusing to take back deportees and visa over-stayers could be denied American visas.</span><br />