On July 23, Anju, an Indian woman, crossed the border to wed her friend Nasrullah, a Pakistani. She was already dead for them, according to her father. Anju had a 15-year-old daughter and a 6-year-old boy when she was already married and living in India.
“To us, she is dead. The father of Anju claimed, “I have nothing to do with her. Anju apparently travelled legally to a distant area in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province where she married her Pakistani partner, Nasrullah, and converted to Islam. According to rumours, she is now going by the name Fatima.
“She is dead for us”. I don’t know anything new about her, and since we have no connection to her, she is free to do anything she wants. “I haven’t spoken to her in a year,” Anju’s father admitted.
He questioned, “How can I feel a connection with a woman who not only deserted her husband, but also her children? Anju’s father responded that it “did not matter even if she died” if she returned to India after her visa expired when asked what would happen.
The Madhya Pradesh town of Tekanpur is home to Anju’s father, who previously described her as “mentally disturbed and eccentric” but not having an affair. She should not have travelled to Pakistan without telling her family, he continued.
Nasir Mehmood Satti, the deputy inspector general of Pakistan’s Malakand Division, certified Anju’s (35) and Nasrullah’s (29) nikkah, saying that Anju had changed her name to Fatima after converting to Islam.
According to authorities, the pair appeared before a district judge in Dir Bala in front of Nasrullah’s relatives, law enforcement officers, and attorneys.
The police escorted the woman from court to her in-law’s house for security reasons.
While in India, Anju was already a married woman. Arvind, Anju’s husband, who is currently in Rajasthan, hoped that his wife would soon return. They have a boy who is six years old and a daughter who is fifteen.
