India
repatriated two Pakistani nationals, including five-year-old Iftikhar Ahmad,
from Attari border on Saturday.
Sources said
Iftikhar's father Gulzar Ahmed, a resident of Jammu and Kashmir, was married to
Rohina Kiyani from Pakistan-Occupied-Kashmir (PoK). However, the couple fell
apart and Gulzar brought the boy to India, leaving Razia in PoK.
Razia had
she appealed to the Pakistani high commissioner in New Delhi to intervene and
get back her son.
Sources said
Pakistan high commissioner Abdul Basit, persuaded Gulzar and other members of
his family to send back the child to his mother and even arranged for finances
to bring the family from Ganderbal in Jammu and Kashmir to Amritsar.
Iftikhar was
accompanied by the Pakistan high commission's political councillor Fauzia Fayaz
to Amritsar. He was sent back to Pakistan late on Saturday.
In another
repatriation, the BSF on Saturday sent Pakistani national Nem Shah home via
Attari. BSF DIG R S Kataria said Nem, 35, of Nagg Chak village in Faislabad
district of Pakistan, was arrested by the BSF but released on humanitarian
grounds. During interrogation, it was found that Nem had crossed the border
inadvertently and nothing objectionable was found from him.
The BSF held
a flag meeting with Pakistan Rangers and then handed over Nem to them.
(Timesofindia)
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