External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has directed the Indian High Commission in Islamabad to renew the passport of an Indian woman married to a Pakistani, and facilitate her return.
Mohammadia Begum, who hails from Telangana, was living with her husband in Sialkot. She complained to her parents that she was being harassed and beaten up by her husband and in-laws and that she wanted to come back to India.
Victim's father Mohammad Akbar appealed to Ms. Swaraj, who, in turn, asked officials of the Indian High Commission to meet Ms. Begum.
On Monday, Ms. Swaraj posted on Twitter that the officials met Ms. Begum and she has expressed her desire to return to India.
Following this, Majlis Bachao Tehreek spokesperson Amjed Ullah Khan posted a video of a telephone conversation between Ms. Begam and her mother, in which she said she was beaten up and threatened by her husband for informing the Indian mission.
Mr. Khan also mentioned that Ms. Begum's husband married her by claiming that he was an Omani national but has been keeping her in captivity in Pakistan for 15 years.
"Mohammadi Begum said that she has faith in Allah and the Indian Govt specially on Smt Susma Swaraj MEA and the Indian Embassy Officials in Pakistan that they had assured her that as soon as her passport is renewed she will be transferred to Mumbai then to Hyderabad," Mr. Khan said.
