Parents vow not to let deported girl return to India

Say they don’t want their daughter to relive bitter memories

LAHORE:

Parents of 19-year-old Iqra Jeevani, who had been deported from India a few days ago, said that their daughter no longer had any relationship with the Indian boy Mulayum Singh Yadav.

Iqra Jeewani had gone missing from Hyderabad on September 19 last year. Actually, she had gone to India illegally where she married Mulayam Singh Yadav.

However, on February 19, the Indian authorities sent Iqra Jeewani back to Pakistan via the Wagah border, and she is now living with her parents in Hyderabad.

The girl's parents said that they did not accept the fake marriage, and Iqra would not be sent back to India.

Meanwhile, Mulayam Singh is languishing in jail while his parents said that Iqra Jeewani was their daughter-in-law, and they appealed to their government to issue a visa to Iqra to come to India.

Iqra Jeewani's father, Muhammad Sohail Jeewani, said that the media had been contacting them since his daughter’s return, but he did not want his daughter to go through pain by reliving the bitter memories.

They said that they wanted to forget what happened. He said that they were praying for their daughter to begin a new life.

According to Muhammad Sohail Jeewani, a few days ago, the family of the Indian man had contacted him by telephone and said that their son had changed his religion to marry Iqra.

They claimed that Iqra was their daughter-in-law and they wanted to bring her back to India, but Mohammad Sohail clearly told them the he didn’t accept the fake marriage.

Sohail said he had told the boy’s family to forget Iqra, and that she would never go back to India ever again.

The Express Tribune tried to contact Iqra to learn what she had to say over the whole matter, but she appeared to be unwilling to talk about the matter.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 28^th, 2023.