Earlier on Monday, July 24, both Nasrullah and Anju went on sightseeing trip amid tight security
Peshawar: Anju, the Indian mother of two children who legally travelled to Pakistan, married her Pakistani Facebook friend on Tuesday, July 25, after converting to Islam, a senior police official said, a PTI report in The Tribune.
Anju, 34, was staying at her 29-year-old Pakistani friend Nasrullah’s home. They became friends on Facebook in 2019. The couple wed in a local court of a district and sessions judge.
“Nasrullah and Anju’s marriage was solemnised with a proper Nikah ceremony after she converted to Islam,” senior officer at Moharrar City Police Station in Upper Dir district Muhammad Wahab told PTI.
Both appeared in the district court in Dir Bala in the presence of family members of Nasrullah, police personnel and lawyers, police said.
Malakand Division Deputy Inspector General Nasir Mehmood Satti confirmed the nikkah of Anju and Nasrullah and said she had been renamed Fatima. She has has been shifted to Nasrullah’s home from the court under police security, Satti added .
Earlier on Monday, July 24, both Nasrullah and Anju went sightseeing and visited the Lawari tunnel connecting Dir Upper District with Chitral District amid tight security. police officials said.
Born in Kailor village in Uttar Pradesh, Anju later moved to Alwar district in Rajasthan, with her parents and other family members. A senior UP police official said Kailor village was located in the Bundelkhand region in Jalaun district around 70 kilometres from the district headquarters in the Madhavgarh development block
Anju shared a short video in which she says she “feels safe here” in Pakistan, I want to give this message to all that I have come here legally and with planning and I am safe here,” she said.
“I request all the mediapersons not to harass my relatives and children,” she said. Anju is married to Arvind, who is in Rajasthan. They have a 15-year-old daughter and a six-year-old son.
Anju travelled to Pakistan legally from India via the Wagah-Attari border. According to an official document of the Ministry of Interior sent to Pakistan’s High Commission in New Delhi, the chancery was informed that it had been decided to grant a 30-day visa to Anju, valid for Upper Dir only.
Nasrullah, a science graduate from a University in Sheringal, is the youngest among five brothers.
According to a senior police official from the region, the travel documents of the Indian lady have been found to be in order and she has been allowed to stay with Nasrullah.
“She travelled to Pakistan on a month-long visit visa and all her travel documents are valid and complete,” Upper Dir District Police Officer (DPO) Mushtaq Khan said on Monday.
“Anju has come to Pakistan from New Delhi for the sake of love and is living happily here,” Khan was quoted as saying by Geo News.
Born in Kailor village in Uttar Pradesh, Anju later moved to Alwar district in Rajasthan, with her parents and other family members. A senior UP police official said Kailor village was located in the Bundelkhand region in Jalaun district around 70 kilometres from the district headquarters in the Madhavgarh development block
Anju’s husband Arvind told the media in Bhiwadi, Rajasthan that she left home on Thursday, July 20, on the pretext of going to Jaipur but later the family came to know that she was in Pakistan.
The Anju’s incident is similar to Seema Ghulam Haider’s case, but in reverse. Seema, a Pakistani mother of four, entered India illegally to live with Sachin Meena, a Hindu man she came in contact with while playing PUBG in 2019.
Seema, 27, and Sachin, 22, live in the Rabupura area of Greater Noida, near Delhi, where he runs a provision store, according to the Uttar Pradesh Police.