He has also been running a Facebook campaign to trace her family in India, very much like Nawazuddin Siddiqui, playing a journalist in BAJRANGI BHAIJAAN. Experts say that she could belong to some vulnerable family in Jharkhand.
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On Tuesday, Sushma had introduced that the federal government will bring Gita back to India after Indian High Commissioner TCA Raghavan met Gita on the Edhi Foundation in Karachi the place the younger woman has been staying for the previous 15 years after she by chance strayed into Pakistani territory.
Geeta’s plight resonates deeply; the hostilities keep apart many families who were separated when majority-Hindu India and majority-Muslim Pakistan became two different countries in 1947.
“In the last few days, four families from Punjab, Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh have claimed Geeta, who is now in Karachi, to be their daughter”.
On when Geeta is likely to make a homecoming, Vikas Swarup, spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs, said: “We are in the process of completing formalities for verifying her nationality and providing her travel documents so that she can come home”.
The scriptwriters were unaware of Geeta’s story, but the movie generated an avalanche of interest in her case. “With these particulars, please assist find Gita’s family”, the minister tweeted. Then she wrote down “Vaishno Devi'”, the minister said. She has been living with a philanthropist family near Karachi. “Geeta conveyed to Indian High Commissioner by gestures that they are seven brothers and sisters”, the Indian Minister tweeted.
“With several small children to take care of and the death of parents-in-law and failing health of her husband Hafiz Viqar Ahmad, diagnosed with complications, she found it hard to plan a trip to Pakistan to bring her son back“.
Geeta, who is illiterate, mimes the explosion of a hand grenade, and shows how she ducked and ran before being caught by armed men. She also observes fast during Ramadan.
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The Punjab Rangers brought her to the Edhi Foundation almost 14 years ago, said Faisal Edhi of the social welfare group. Geeta is stuck in Pakistan for more than a decade after losing contact with her family.
