Uttar Pradesh: Two Pakistani women, married to Indians, seek to stay

All other Pakistani nationals in Uttar Pradesh have been sent back.

Lucknow: All the Pakistani nationals barring two women, who had been married to Indian citizens, have left Uttar Pradesh a day before the deadline for their deportation on Wednesday (April 30), according to the sources.

The two Pakistani nationals are - Maryam, who had arrived in India on a short term visa and was married to Aamir, a resident of UP’s Bulandshahar district, and Seema Haider, who had crossed the border to marry her Indian lover Sachin Meena two years back and is currently living in Greater Noida.

While Maryam is three months pregnant, Seema had given birth to a baby girl a few months ago.

Both the women have made an appeal to the government to let them stay in India and not to deport them to Pakistan.

‘’I request the government not to deport me.....India is my home.....my husband is an Indian,’’ Maryam said.

The district officials said that three of the four Pakistani nationals, who were in the district, have already left and Maryam was the last one. ‘’She has pleaded to let her stay with her husband...we have forwarded her case to the senior authorities and will act as per their orders,’’ said a district official.

Seema too had released a video stating that she was the "daughter of Pakistan" but now she is the "daughter-in-law" of India. ‘’I have converted to Hinduism after marrying Sachin and I don’t want to go to Pakistan,’’ she said in the video. ‘’I appeal to the government to let me stay here,’’ she said.

The state government has, however, not disclosed the number of Pakistanis living in the state nor shared any information about the nature of their visas.