Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj thanked Pakistan’s diplomats and judiciary after Uzma Ahmed, an Indian national who claimed she had been forced to marry a Pakistani man at gunpoint in Buner earlier in May, returned to her home country on Thursday, reported The Hindu.
Uzma Ahmad was reunited with her family at the Wagah border crossing near Amritsar in northern Punjab state before heading to New Delhi where she called on Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj.
On the occasion, Sushma said India would like to thank Pakistan irrespective of the current status of bilateral political relation.
“Today I would like to express our appreciation of Pakistan irrespective of the current state of bilateral ties. If Uzma is here today, that is because the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan has helped us a lot. Pakistan’s Home Ministry has also helped us a lot,” said Ms Swaraj, emphasising that the Indian High Commission received humanitarian support from Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The Minister, who tracked the case since Uzma came to the Indian mission in Islamabad in early May and sought help, said the diplomats of the mission acted swiftly in assisting her.
Uzma, who is in her early 20s, had alleged that her husband Tahir Ali, from the Buner region in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, had assaulted her.
Reportedly, the two had become friends while working in Malaysia.
