Indian national Uzma returns home from Pakistan following court orders
[DAWN] Uzma, an Indian national who claimed she had been forced to marry a Pak man at gunpoint in Buner earlier in May, returned to her home country via the Wagah border on Thursday, a day after the Islamabad High Court (IHC) gave her permission to do so.
Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj took to Twitter to welcome the 22-year-old back to India.
"Welcome home India's daughter. I am sorry for all that you have gone through," Swaraj wrote.
Indian Deputy High Commissioner J P Singh saw Uzma off in Islamabad and she was escorted to Wagah border crossing with strict security.
Uzma had filed a petition in the IHC seeking repatriation to India on the grounds that her daughter from an earlier marriage was a thalassaemia patient and she needed to see her.
Posted by: Fred 2017-05-26 |