External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, who met Geeta, the deaf and mute girl now with an NGO after coming back from Pakistan nearly two months ago, said on Wednesday that the girl was happy with the efforts made by the government to locate her parents.
“I met Geeta in Indore yesterday. She is very happy. She appreciates our earnest efforts to find her family,” Ms. Swaraj tweeted.
Despite various efforts by the External Affairs Ministry, no family has been identified as Geeta’s even though many have come forward claiming her to be their daughter including a Muslim family.
ADVERTISEMENT
Ms. Swaraj met Geeta at a hotel on Tuesday night and assured her that the government was trying hard to locate the whereabouts of her parents, said Monika Punjabi Verma, head of the sign language department of an institute run by the NGO in Indore.
Geeta had crossed into Pakistan accidentally as a child. She stayed there for over a decade and was taken care of by Edhi Foundation’s Bilquis Edhi.