New Delhi (NVI): New Delhi today asked Islamabad to “repatriate without any harm” two Indians who were arrested in Pakistan’s Punjab province for allegedly crossing the border illegally, and hoped they didn’t fall victim to latter’s propaganda.
Asking Pakistan to provide consular access to the two Indian nationals Prashant Vaindam and Dhari Lal, the spokesperson Raveesh Kumar the Ministry of External Affairs in weekly briefing here said: “We hope the two Indians don’t become victims of Pakistan propaganda. Both should be repatriated without any harm.”
In the recent past, Indian media has been quoting Prashant’s father V Babu Rao that the former had left home in April 2017 in search of his girlfriend. “He was in love with a woman who he had met while he was working in Bengaluru about four years ago. Later he got a job in Hyderabad. One day he did not return home from work. He simply disappeared. I lodged a missing complaint,” Rao is reported to have said.
“For more than two years, we had no clue where and how he was. On Monday I saw a short video on news channels and only then I came to know that he was in Pakistan. I do not know who the other person with him is,” he is reported to have said.
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