Nagpur: The birth of a son brings happiness to Sagar Kukreja, a Hindu Pakistan who lives in Jalgaon, who has experienced difficulties because of the kuncian.
However, the joy is short-lived.
The three-month-old baby died on August 21, threw a toxic family plan to return to Pakistan and make a new start.
One crisis has brought them to India 16 years ago, and others forced them to return.
Thirty-year-old sagar has come to India as a teenager, from the city of Kashmore in Sindh Province.
He took a job instead of studying to support his family here, because it was difficult to meet the needs at that time.
Their situation increased slightly with income from cellphone stores.
However, locking strikes their fate is hard, and the family plans to return and look for opportunities in Pakistan, where they have some relatives.
Kukreja family today include old parents, wife and small children.
Their application for Indian citizenship remains delayed.
They plan to return to visas without objections to India (Nori).
This allows long-term visa holders (LTV) to stay for three months in Pakistan.
The plan is to keep opening options to return to India if things don’t work, or keep staying there and let LTV expiration.
Kukreja has been waiting for the second child to be born, so Pakistani passports can be obtained for him and the family can return.
Four days ago, their three-month-old son Lakshya, who did not store well since more than a week, died.
Sagar and his wife cursed himself for ignoring the child.
“We are too involved in getting all papers to go to Pakistan.
In Burun, we ignore child health,” Sagar said.
His wife Rekha agreed, said that they had been very depressed so that returning to Pakistan seemed to be the only choice in front of them.
Children’s death has destroyed them completely.
But now they have dropped the plan to return to Pakistan, afraid of the health of their other son Jeevan, who was one and a half years old.
The family is now begging the officials that they are given the earliest Indian citizenship.
Kukreja said they were ready to submit Pakistani passports.
He has requested that the norm remain a minimum of five years to get citizenship to be relaxed for his wife, who came to India three years ago.
“We have gone to Delhi to get a passport for Lakshya when he was one and a half months old.
Once again we had planned another trip because my wife’s passport had to be updated.
The child was unhealthy, suffering from cough and fever.
The doctor said there was nothing to worry about.
We should go on August 21, but the child died that day, “he said.
“We are all too busy collecting papers to complete the formality, and eventually ignore child health, assuming he will be fine,” said a repentance Kukreja said.
This is only one more heartbreaking story to find people who are torn on two sides of the border because of a pandemic.
In April, the border was closed due to the Covid protocol, making people stranded on both sides.
This has happened since the first wave.
Borders have been opened from time to time, with more people crossing to the other side and stranded.
Ajit Nagdev reached Pakistan Ajit Nagdev, a Hindu from Pakistan about whom TOI has reported finally reaching Pakistan on Saturday.
He crossed the border along with several other stranded people.
Nagdev is also a story about a family stranded on the border because Covid.
He tried to return since April.
Before the exit could be cleaned, his wife Rekha Kumari died of kidney disease while undergoing treatment at Nagpur.
The family lives in Balaghat in Madhya Pradesh and Ajit, who runs a small garment business, runs into difficult times because of the kuncian and wants to return to Pakistan and join his relatives.