Sushma Swaraj welcomes home Indian woman forced to marry in Pakistan
New Delhi: An Indian woman, who was allegedly forced to marry a Pakistani man, will returned home on Thursday after the Islamabad High Court allowed her plea and ordered police to escort her to the Wagah Border.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj welcomed Uzma back home, calling her "
"I am sorry for all that you have gone through," Swaraj tweeted.
Uzma, who is in her early 20s, hails from
She has accused Tahir Ali, whom she reportedly met in
Uzma petitioned the Islamabad High Court on May 12 requesting it to allow her to return home urgently as her daughter from her first marriage in
The court also returned her the immigration papers which she had said were taken away by Ali, who had submitted the documents after being told by the court to do so.
She had been staying at the Indian mission in