Click to play videoLucknow: Every year India and Pakistan release hundreds of prisoners as a goodwill gesture. Mohammad Sharif is one among them, but he is not able to go back home.
While authorities in Pakistan say Sharif does not have the necessary documents to prove that he is a Pakistani national, his parents living in Karachi have also refused to accept him.
Sharif - fondly called Pakistanwallah - lives in Kakori, a remote hamlet in Lucknow. He might be a Pakistani but proudly sings the Indian national anthem, loves Bollywood movies, and lives in the house of a Hindu policeman.
The 24-year-old youth was just 12 years old when he reached Mumbai and then went to Lucknow - without any documents or passport.
Due to lack of documents to prove his nationality, Sharif has spent 10 years in juvenile and district jails of Lucknow.
But even after the Indian courts have released him and ordered him to be sent back to Pakistan, he has nowhere to go. Pakistan has refused to accept him as their citizen.
"I want to meet my mother and ask her what my fault was in this entire issue," Sharif said.
Sharif called his father, Haji Mohammad Ishaq Ahmad - a plywood manager in Karachi, soon after his release from the district jail. But he was in for a rude shock when his father said that their son was dead.
Sharif's small room in the police station has now become a permanent home for him. He might have been born in Pakistan but his heart now lies in India.
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