Click to play videoPoonch, Jammu: A 92-year-old ailing Pakistani woman in Jammu and Kashmir, has gone to court wanting permission to stay in India with her only son.
Anara Begum and her son Mohammed Rashid were reunited after 57 years. Anara, a resident of Kotli in Pakistan, has travelled across the LoC, to meet her only son in Poonch. But Anara knows her joy could be short lived. With her visa set to expire soon, she has approached a court seeking a stay on any move by Indian authorities to deport her.
"I want to die here. If I do they will take care of me, my son will take care of me. So I want to be here," she said.
Anara and her husband Nawab Khan had crossed over to the Pakistan in 1952, leaving their three-year-old son with his grandparents. She began efforts to reunite with her son, after her husband died in 2004.
"They went and could never come back. I have petitioned in court and will not let her go back," said Rashid.
"Our main contention is that she never voluntarily took citizenship to her country. She is over 90-years-old and her only son is living in India. Second, she was a citizen of India in 1951 and her name was figured in the final electoral role in a state of India," said Anara's counsel, R S Durswal.
Ever since the cross LOC bus started in 2006, several aged people have petitioned to spend their last days in India. The court has granted temporarily stay orders, but no final decision has been announced. Till then, these relationships continue to be trapped in the legal battles and the borders.
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