“Why aren’t you doing anything to bring me home?”
For nearly one year, Sajjad Ahmad of Jammu’s Rajouri district has heard this plaintive refrain from his son in Pakistan. “Every time I would call him, he would ask me this.”
Ahmad’s 19-year-old son, Aasim Sajjad, was among hundreds of people from Pakistan asked to leave India following the brutal massacre of 25 tourists at the Pahalgam meadows on April 22 last year – the deadliest terror attack on tourists in the Kashmir Valley. At the time, Aasim’s application for Indian citizenship was still pending, his father said.
Since his deportation last year, Aasim has been living with an aunt in Gujranwala, a city in Pakistan’s Punjab province. “He is terrified and has gone into depression,” Ahmad said. “He mostly stays indoors and has quit studies. If he was here, he would have appeared in his Class 12 examination this year.”
On March 25, the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh came to the teenager’s relief. The high court ordered the government to “retrieve” Ahmad’s son from Pakistan and grant him Indian citizenship in eight weeks.
This is the second instance in Jammu and Kashmir where judicial intervention has undone the deportation of Pakistani citizens who had been living...
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