Amritsar: Nilakhi’s 10-day family, born in Jodhpur in Rajasthan, finally went to their home in Pakistan on Sunday, exactly one week after they stopped crossing at Attari because of the lack of paper for newborns.
Nilakhi’s parents, Pritam and Rani, have joined Jatha along with their three children in January 2020 to visit various temples in India.
However, they cannot return to Pakistan as soon as Coronavirus Lockdown is enforced and the border is sealed.
Limited in foreign countries, without a means of livelihood, most Jatha members moved to Jodhpur to work as a daily wage worker.
On August 29, the pair, with their children Sagar, Hemraj, Nilakhi, and three days, have arrived at the border of Attari’s land along with around 84 Hindu Pakistani members of Jatha to return to their homes in the province of Sindh Pakistan.
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190 Members of Pak Hindu Jatha returned through Attarithe Jatha was allowed to continue, but the family was denied permission because they failed to produce a new birth certificate.
“We are not sure of our fate because we do not have documents, such as birth certificates, from Nilakhi.
We do not know whether we will be able to return to our country along with other Jatha members.
But it happened.
We arrived as a family of five members in India but Back home as six members, “said Pritam with a folded hand, just too relieved finally got permission to go home.
190 members of Yatha Hindu Pakistan go to Pakistan through Attari on Sunday.
The protocol officer at the Integrated Attari checkpoint, Arun Pal said the family had returned to Jodhpur, where Nilakhi was born, to get the required documentation.
They made him registered in his mother’s passport from Delhi, followed which was allowed to cross the border.
The officer said that other Pakistan Hindu pairs were rejected by permits to cross the border because they did not have the documentation of their newborn girls Bharti.
“They must go through the same procedure with Nilakhi’s to be able to return to their country,” he said.
Recently, a group of about 80 Pakistani Hindus was not permitted across the border because they did not have a RT-PCR test report.
They got green signals only after the regional government conducted tests and received negative reports.