Woman with 14-day baby too sent back
*All return from Attari border
Sanjeev Pargal
JAMMU, May 1: Nine persons from the border district of Poonch including eight siblings have been sent back from Attari border in Amritsar district of Punjab as Pakistan authorities refused to take back them. A woman from Budhal, Rajouri, who delivered baby a fortnight back, has also come back from Attari.
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Officials told the Excelsior that eight siblings of Jammu and Kashmir Police constable Iftikhar Ali including five sisters and three brothers, who were putting up at Mendhar in Poonch district, were sent back from Attari border in Amritsar district as Pakistan authorities didn’t take them back.
They returned to Poonch tonight.
Iftikhar Ali, as reported exclusively by the Excelsior today, was not sent to Attari for deportation as he is posted in police and presently serving in GRP Katra. His five sisters and three brothers were taken to Attari for deportation to Pakistan but all of them were sent back from there by the authorities which refused to take them back.
Another woman from Poonch Surya Kouser has also returned from Attari as she too wasn’t taken back by the authorities.
A child Nomaan was the only person from Poonch who was allowed by the Pakistan authorities at Attari to cross over to their side as he was born Pakistani but was putting up in Mendhar.
As per the officials, a Pakistani woman Sara Khan wife of Aurangzeb married at Budhal in Rajouri district in 2017, has also been sent back from Attari border and is on way back to Budhal. Pakistan authorities refused to take her back.
She had given birth to two children here including one only a fortnight ago.
However, an 18-year-old Azim Sajjad from Budhal in Rajouri district, who was born in Pakistan occupied Jammu Kashmir (PoJK) but later shifted here along with her mother has been taken back by the Pakistani authorities at Attari border. He crossed over to Pakistan.
As reported, four Pakistani women were sent from Jammu district to Attari. Three of them crossed over to Pakistan while Menal Khan wife of a CRPF constable has returned on the basis of court orders. Similarly, two Pakistanis sent to Attari from Kathua, also came back yesterday.
Police constable Iftikhar Ali and his siblings have together 22 children, who were not deported as they were born in Salwa, Mendhar in Poonch district.
Meanwhile, a 69-year-old Pakistani national, who was to be sent back to his nation, died of cardiac arrest at Attari.
Abdul Waheed was brought from Srinagar by the Jammu and Kashmir Police for his repatriation to Pakistan.
He had been living in India for the last 17 years and was found with an expired visa by the police, the officials said.
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