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How India brought Uzma back from Pakistan: All you need to know

How India brought Uzma back from Pakistan: All you need to know on Business Standard. She had accused Tahir Ali of forcing her into marrying him in Pakistan on May 3

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How India brought Uzma back from Pakistan: All you need to know

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  1. How India brought Uzma back from Pakistan: All you need to know She had accused Tahir Ali of forcing her into marrying him in Pakistan on May 3 How India brought Uzma back from Pakistan: All you need to know on Business Standard. She had accused Tahir Ali of forcing her into marrying him in Pakistan on May 3

  2. Breaking News : Uzma, accompanied by Indian mission officials, crossed the Wagah Border near Amritsar on Thursday morning. "Pakistan is like a well of death", said Uzma Ahmed, who is in her early 20s and hails from New Delhi. She had travelled to Pakistan earlier this month. She had accused Tahir Ali, whom she reportedly met in Malaysia and fell in love with, of forcing her into marrying him in Pakistan on May 3. 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 India suffered from thalassemia — a blood disorder characterised by abnormal hemoglobin production. She had been staying at the Indian mission in Islamabad after she accused Ali of marrying her at gunpoint. On Thursday, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj welcomed Uzma back to India and expressed regret over her plight.

  3. The case came to the forefront after her husband claimed that the Indian High Commission had stopped his wife from leaving the premises during their visit to apply for visa on May 7. "I am an orphan. I am an adopted child and have nobody," Uzma told reporters in New Delhi, hours after she crossed into India through the Wagah border. "They could have sold me or used me in a risky operation," she said about Tahir's family in Buner, Pakistan. "There may be lots of girls in Buner. Buner people are mostly in Malaysia and they get girls from Malaysia. It is a dangerous area. You hear gunshots everyday. Every (man) has two wives there. I don't want this to happen with everyone," she claimed.(read more...)

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