Mamnoon Hussain has made a virtue of remaining low profile and the consensus is that he has simply been rewarded with the position by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for his loyalty.
Although Pakistan’s Sartaj Aziz attempted to defend the visa denial on the basis of technicalities, he was unable to explain the hasty visa denials to reporters Anita Joshua and Rezaul Hasan Laskar or the delay in processing visas of other Indian journalists.