Relatives of missing Indian prisoners of war on Sunday said the evidence gathered during their visit to Pakistani jails had reinforced their belief that their loved ones were languishing in this country and asked President Pervez Musharraf to order an investigation to help locate them.
“We want President Musharraf to order an investigation to look into the strands of evidence we collected before and during our visit,” Damayanthi Tambay, 59, wife of Ft Lt V V Tambay, who went missing during 1971 war, said. Tambay claimed she had received several communications about her husband’s whereabouts in a Pakistani prison.
She showed a front page of Sunday Pakistan Observer of December 1971 where the lead story spoke about the capture of five Indian pilots in which the name of her husband was mentioned.
The kin of POWs now want an investigation involving Red Cross, the two governments and the relatives to go into the evidence.