An online petition has been launched to seek the release of Mumbai youth Hamid Nehal Ansari, who is languishing in a Pakistani jail.
Hamid Ansari, an engineer and MBA graduate, now around 30, went missing since November 2012.
His parents, Nehal Ahmed Ansari and Fauzia Ansari, had left no stone unturned to trace him. In the first fortnight of January 2016, reports from Peshawar said: “A divisional bench of the Peshawar High Court disposed of the case of Indian national Hamid Nehal Ansari, missing in Pakistan for over three years, after the government confirmed that he was currently in army custody and facing a trial in military courts.”
The Mumbai youth, who was in Kabul for a job interview in November 2012, came close to a Pakistani girl through Facebook. Ansari is believed to have reached Kohat in Pakistan in an attempt to save her from a forceful marriage to a person twice her age, following a Jirga decision.
Published 09 July 2016, 20:33 IST