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| Indian national Uzma returns home from Pakistan following court orders |
| 2017-05-26 |
| [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 |