An Indian Sikh woman, who went to Pakistan last year in November as a pilgrim, has been forced to convert to Islam and marry a Pakistani man .. She has appealed to her husband in India and others to help her to come back to India
Stranded in Pakistan since November 2025, an Indian citizen, Sarabjeet Kaur, has appealed to her husband in India, Karnail Singh, to help her return to India.
Surpriisingly, the Pakistani authorities had last week reportedly arranged for Sarabjeet Kaur’s deportation to India via the Wagah border.
However, the move was abruptly stalled at the eleventh hour, without any official explanation for sudden reversal of plans.
Sarabjeet Kaur (48) travelled to Pakistan with a Sikh pilgrimage group of 2000 in November 2025. During her brief stay there, she met and married a local resident, Nasir Hussain of Sheikhupura district, some 50kms from Lahore, in Pakiistan
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Kaur, among 2,000 Sikh pilgrims who had entered Pakistan via Wagah border from India last year to attend the 556th birth anniversary celebrations of Guru Nanak Dev
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There she claims, she was forcibly converted and married off to Nasir Hussain by his family members
An audio clip allegedly of Kaur, has gone viral on social media, where she is heard speaking to her husband in India, expressing her agony.
In the clip the Sikh woman, told her husband Karnail Singh that her condition is ‘not good’ in Pakistan, while breaking down several times.
“I am very unhappy here (Pakistan). I want to come back to my children. I have raised them since they were small. Here, I am struggling for each penny,” Kaur is heard saying. She also claimed she did not even have proper clothes to wear.
Kaur, who hails from Amanipur village in Kapurthala district, is heard pleading to return home and told her husband Karnail that she is not free and is being held against her will.
According to Karnail Singh, his wife was threatened at gunpoint and forced into a marriage she never consented to. He alleged she was also coerced into converting to Islam. “Everything was done on gunpoint,” he told News18.
Sarabjeet was given a Muslim name (Noor) before the nikah ceremony.
Karnail Singh claimed to have every recording of Sarabjeet begging and crying for help.
“She keeps asking me to help her, to bring her back … Her health has suffered gravely during her forced confinement,” Singh added.
While all other pilgrims returned home a few days after the festivities, Sarabjeet did not.
A senior police officer in Lahore later said that she contracted marriage with Nasir Hussain of Sheikhupura, a day after she arrived in Pakistan on November 4.
