ISI agent's pregnant Indian wife wants to disown child

Shattered by revelations that her husband Mohammed Ijaz is a Pakistani citizen and an alleged ISI agent, an eight-month pregnant Indian woman said she is reluctant to accept the yet-to-be born child.

Asma, a resident of Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly town, was quoted as having told the local media that she did not want to “bring up” a child, whose father was a spy who “betrayed” her country.

Claiming that she had no knowledge about Ijaz’s background, Asma, who originally hailed from Ara district in Bihar, said she would prefer her child to be brought up by someone else. “I would have aborted the child....but it is not possible...I have no option but to give birth to the child,” she said.

Asma said that her family had been introduced to Ijaz by a relative of hers. Asma’s father Shamsher, who reached Bareilly from Bihar on Sunday, said that he too had no idea that Ijaz was a Pak national and that he was involved in “anti-national” activities.

“I took him to be an Indian citizen...I was told that he had been living in Bareilly for the past many years,” Shamsher said. The distraught father said that he would get Asma married to someone else if she so desired. “I want my daughter to start life afresh,” he added. On the question of bringing up the child, Shamsher said that it was entirely up to Asma.