Muhammad Idrees: Abandoned by India and Pakistan

[pmaitra]

Muhammad Idrees: Abandoned by India and Pakistan

In 1999, Mr Idrees left his wife and four young sons in Pakistan's port city of Karachi to attend to his sick father in the Indian city of Kanpur. He was born in India, and had moved to Pakistan and become its citizen after he married a cousin in Karachi.

His father died soon after he reached Kanpur. In the chaos and grief that followed this personal loss, Mr Idrees overstayed for three days and his visa ran out.

So did his luck.

When he went to the authorities in Kanpur to seek a visa extension, they suspected him of spying for Pakistan and put him behind the bars. It took 10 years for a court to exonerate him of the charge, fine him 500 rupees ($9.17; £5.68) for overstaying and order his repatriation.

Justice delayed is justice denied, and in the case of Mr Idrees, even justice delivered did not turn out to be liberating.

For 13 years in all, he has been trying to return home without success.

According to India's Ministry of External Affairs, Mr Idrees travelled to India on a Pakistani passport (number G057703), issued in Karachi, on 10 May 1999. To add to his woes, his passport expired in 2003.

But Pakistan denies he is a citizen, and believes he has separated from his wife and has been disowned by his family.

"Our interior ministry told us that he's not a Pakistani citizen. To our knowledge he's separated from his wife and his in-laws. They disown him. We have communicated this to Indian authorities," Manzoor Ali Memon, spokesperson of Pakistan's High Commission in India, told me.

By Rupa Jha, BBC News
Source: BBC News - Muhammad Idrees: Abandoned by India and Pakistan

 

[blank_quest]

Two Nation and a Man in No Mans land, unreasonable delay is unjust and thus justice is indeed denied.

 

[Tolaha]

What a sad soul! Disowned by his country of choice and to top it, disowned by his family as well! But I have an issue with the BBC title, how did India 'abandon' him? Also, how will his family disowning him result in Pakistan declaring him as no longer a citizen? Yes, he got his citizenship based on that marriage but can citizenship be revoked when the marriage goes down?

 

[Tronic]

Pathetic title. India did not "abandon" him, rather, he's the one who "abandoned" India. We just screwed him over by putting him behind bars for 10 years for nothing. At the end of the day, it was his chosen country Pakistan which abandoned him.

 

[Tshering22]

Stupid title.

The scumbag abandoned India and went to his Jannat E Mulk.

In fact, We should kick out everyone who has a relative in Pakistan. Strip them off their passports and send them in truckloads to Pakistan on the basis of the relations there.

 

[Ray]

I wonder if the case is such an open and shut one.

The manner in which it is presented would be an attempt to portray the Indian authorities as totally stupid and logic denied.

That would be juvenile, and in fact, agenda driven.

 

[farhan_9909]

Stupid title.

The scumbag abandoned India and went to his Jannat E Mulk.

In fact, We should kick out everyone who has a relative in Pakistan. Strip them off their passports and send them in truckloads to Pakistan on the basis of the relations there.

if so is the case than this mean you should kick everyone out of india because of the mehrgarh civilization

 

[arnabmit]

if so is the case than this mean you should kick everyone out of india because of the mehrgarh civilization

Mehrgarh civilization was a civilization if the Indian Subcontinent. Everything before 1947 in the Indian Subcontinent belongs to India.

 

[debasree]

we do not do any wrong thousands of pakis overstayed here its a security nightmare scenerio..

 

[farhan_9909]

mehrgarh civilization was a civilization if the indian subcontinent. Everything before 1947 in the indian subcontinent belongs to india.

stop claiming our civilization,language and culture as yours

 

[arnabmit]

Everything in your country younger than 65yrs old is yours. We make no claim on that.

stop claiming our civilization,language and culture as yours

 

[farhan_9909]

Everything in your country younger than 65yrs old is yours. We make no claim on that.

your claim doesnt matter..anything that falls under the MAP of IVC is our(which include indian punjab,gujarat,whole of kashmir etc)

even if those parts still fall under India.they and the culture,language and everything of that region belong to us.

 

[arnabmit]

Your claim doesn't matter either. History says our claim is right and your claim is delusion.

Stay deluded and even claim Mars or Jupiter for all I care.

your claim doesnt matter..anything that falls under the MAP of IVC is our(which include indian punjab,gujarat,whole of kashmir etc)

even if those parts still fall under India.they and the culture,language and everything of that region belong to us.

 

[farhan_9909]

Your claim doesn't matter either. History says our claim is right and your claim is delusion.

Stay deluded and even claim Mars or Jupiter for all I care.

well no mars belong to india.after all the mars mission was planned.is planned by aid money from UK

we never claim sanskrit as our,or sari as our,or lungi as our national dress.but why the hell you copy us in everything.and than claim they belong to india

 

[arnabmit]

If you think you can lure me to one of your ridiculous lectures, you have sadly mistaken.

So stop trolling, drink some of the formaldehyde laced milk, which is the only variety of milk available in your country, and go to sleep.

well no mars belong to india.after all the mars mission was planned.is planned by aid money from UK

we never claim sanskrit as our,or sari as our,or lungi as our national dress.but why the hell you copy us in everything.and than claim they belong to india

 

[farhan_9909]

If you think you can lure me to one of your ridiculous lectures, you have sadly mistaken.

So stop trolling, drink some of the formaldehyde laced milk, which is the only variety of milk available in your country, and go to sleep.

well reading my lectures for a longer time will later force you to believe what i said.

 

[Dovah]

well reading my lectures for a longer time will later force you to believe what i said.

If you could only understand the irony in what you said.

 

[arnabmit]

You will force me jack! Didn't I tell you to go to sleep?

well reading my lectures for a longer time will later force you to believe what i said.

 

[Tshering22]

if so is the case than this mean you should kick everyone out of india because of the mehrgarh civilization

I said relatives.

Not civilizational links of centuries.

It will save you and us a lot of trouble. No chances of crossing in, clear track of who are completely Indian and who are not. And others among these.

 

[tramp]

if so is the case than this mean you should kick everyone out of india because of the mehrgarh civilization

This guy held a Pakistani passport, which means he is a Pakistani citizen. But true to its color, Pakistan refused to acknowledge even that document which they issued. That is the kind of value Pakistani authorities attach to that document they themselves issued.

Not surprising in the case of Pakistan which was born out of the deception of forming a country of Muslims but would close the borders before even half of Muslims had crossed over.

The same wretched mentality of those passengers of a train who lock the door from inside to prevent others from entering.