As Mark Mayo notes, VWP eligibility is determined based on the citizenship under which you are applying, regardless of how long you have held that citizenship or what other citizenships you may hold, or may have held in the past.
There are some circumstances under which you would not be eligible for the visa waiver program, however. Specifically, you are not eligible if any of the following conditions is true:
The above information is taken from http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/visit/visa-waiver-program.html.
If you have been issued a US visa in your Pakistani passport, it is unclear whether you can nonetheless travel on the VWP using your Scandinavian passport. The frequently asked questions for ESTA do not address this question specifically.
If you have an unexpired US visa in your Pakistani passport, you can save yourself $14 by using it to travel, unless, of course, you are no longer a Pakistani citizen. In that case, you might want to ask at the nearest US consulate whether you need to have the visa revoked.
I would be interested to know whether you are in fact accepted when you apply for your ESTA, as I imagine many others on this site would be. I do not know whether the information requested in the application would allow them to identify you as a Pakistani by birth, or as a recently-naturalized citizen of your new country.
If your ESTA application is denied, you will have to apply for a visa. Therefore, you should apply for ESTA well in advance of your intended travel date, so there is sufficient time for a visa application in case it is necessary.
Yes, as a citizen of any of the countries eligible for the VWP, you are eligible, provided you’re travelling with a passport from that country too (not on your Pakistani passport).
Where you’re born might get you some extra questions on arrival, but does not impact the agreement between countries on this matter.
Note: my country of birth is South Africa, considered not eligible and has a record of weak passport protection, among other problems, but I travel on my New Zealand passport, and as such have very little problem travelling into the USA (although they have occasionally noted my birth place). I’ve been there several times in the past 5 years, always on the VWP.
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