Some legal support is available in Pakistan, but rights campaigners say only a minority get support. PHOTO: IRIN
Justice Ijazul Ahsan of the Lahore High Court on Wednesday restrained the federal government from deporting an Indian man married to a Pakistani woman and directed it to submit a reply to the petition by December 20.
Rabia Jahangir said she had married Zafar Riaz in 2005 and they had two children.
She said her husband’s business in India had collapsed and he had no family there to support him.
She said he had been living in Pakistan on a legal until permit the government refused to extend his stay and a foreigner registration officer on November 29, 2013 ordered him to leave Pakistan by December 14, 2013.
The petitioner said if her husband was not allowed to live with his family in Pakistan, her children would be deprived of their father.
She asked the court to stop the government from deporting her husband and direct it to provide him a permanent visa.
Justice Ijazul Ahsan heard the initial contention and barred the government from taking any action against the petitioner’s husband till the next hearing.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 12th, 2013.
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