Manzar Hussain, an eight-grade student from Jhanagar village, had mistakenly crossed the LoC from Khoirata Sector in Kotli, 270 kilometres from Muzaffarabad, on November 14, according to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).
Hussain was handed over to the Indian authorities at Chakothi-Uri crossing point by Pakistani military officials, the ISPR added.
On the occasion Hussain told journalists that he was nicely treated during his stay in Azad Kashmir. “Everyone met me with a smiling face and gave me gifts, fruits and new clothes. I will remember the love and care of the Kashmiri people forever,” he said before leaving for the other side of the disputed Himalayan region.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 19th, 2014.
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@Saad:
Pretty much. But internet Indians excel at negativity on comments section and ET comment moderation staff loves to accept all their rudeness however dumbfounded they might be.
They also delete cookies, delete history, switch computers to vote themselves up. I honestly don't even have that much stamina to show my dislike of Indians to do the same thing. These must be very busy people in real life (sarcasm)
@Saadi: "I understand you want to defend india" "never seen a friendly approach" I never defend my country when my country is wrong or brush things under the carpet. And I only comment on my country articles. You have your grievences as a country so do I. We are not savages like your tv portray. India saved many Pakistani people and sportsmen trapped in jk floods and sent them safe back. Treats thousands of Pakistani patients yearly and allowes refugees. So this attitude "india/indians merciless killers,torturers out to distroy pakistan,no heart/small heart" " while we big hearted send "one" of their boy". I am sorry we are humans too. Every coin has two sides. You just don't know ours.
@Sneha: it seems like you come here only to somehow criticise Pakistan. I understand you want to defend India, but I've never seen a positive or friendly approach in your comments
@Akbar: was nato at afgan border able to stop every infiltrator coming in from pakistan? Iran from Pakistan or pakistan from afganistan, or stop "every" Mexicans from entering America? This is 2900 km border with porous areas dude not a football size field that you can stop every infiltrator. And that is the precisly the reason why india says stop infiltration. While you say any infiltration is just not possible. @ saad "pakistan has hit the right spot" No it's not. Every day people cross over from your to our territories. It's normal to us. So we just don't understand what's newsworthy in this except PR.
The subject should be Indian occupied Kashmir boy returned to Indian authorities.
Hahah... looking at the comments, i think pakistan has hit the right spot.
The kid is our brother / son. We should have sent gifts for his family as well. I hope the Indian Army now will not interrogate and torture the poor 13 yr old and his family on his return. By the way it shows the 600,000 Indian soldiers cannot stop even a 13 yr old from crossing the border and they expect 200,000 Pakistani Army soldiers to ensure no crossings from 700 KM long LOC. Irony.
Why did he want to go back to live under oppression?
Ah....so this was just to show off that we handed back your citizen who strayed this side of the border by mistake. So you want to boast on doing the right thing ? What would have happened if it was a non Kashmiri boy who stranded to the other side ? Even if he was returned all the show off giving him smiles and gifts and clothes wouldn't have happen. A serious cheap and desperate attempt to show that Pakistan cares about Kashmiris.