Crossing border: Pakistani minor girl handed back

India’s Border Security Force (BSF) has handed back a five-year-old Pakistani girl with hearing and visual impairment to their Pakistani counterparts after she inadvertently crossed over into Indian territory in Punjab’s Abohar sector, Indian media reported citing a senior BSF official.

“At about 10:30am, BSF troops of border outpost Natha Singh Wala, Abohar sector, apprehended one Pakistani girl (age around five years) while she inadvertently crossed International Boundary, entered inside Indian territory and reached near the border security fence,” said BSF DIG RS Kataria.

“During questioning, the Pakistani girl was found to be deaf and dumb and could not reveal her name. She inadvertently came inside Indian territory and was apprehended by alert BSF troopers,” he said.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 6^th, 2016.