`Missing` Indian Sikh found |
A 24-year-old Indian Sikh, who had gone missing in Pakistan during Baisakhi festival celebrations, was found from his Facebook friend`s home in Punjab province`s Sheikhupura city. Efforts are on to send him back to India, an official has said. But his disappearance was only noticed when the Indian pilgrim group prepared to return to India. He will be sent back to India via the Wagah border. Confirming that Singh had been traced, spokesperson of the Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) Amir Hashmi said that Singh will be handed over to the Indian authorities. In fact the family of Razzak contacted the board and told it about his (Singh`s) stay at his residence. Both Singh and Razzak visited the ETPB office in Lahore and told it that he (Singh) had not gone missing, Hashmi told PTI. The ETPB collects passports from the visiting pilgrims and returns them on their departure to their homeland. Pakistani intelligence agencies have quizzed Singh for `several hours` after he went `missing`. After it was established that he had not deliberately disappeared and had no links with the Indian intelligence agency, Singh was handed over to the ETPB to be deported to India.Singh`s disappearance came at the heels of another visiting Indian pilgrim Kiran Bala, who married a Pakistani man Mohammad Azam, a resident of Lahore, and applied for Pakistani citizenship.
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