Staff Reporter Lahore
More than 100 Pakistani Hindus, desperate to return from India, are stranded near India’s Attari-Wagah border in a state of helplessness for the past several weeks.
The families went to the neighbouring country in hopes of becoming Indian citizens but were unable to do so despite staying there for several years and are facing discrimination and inhumane treatment at the hand of Indian authorities.
They were unable to return to Pakistan despite necessary preparations being completed for the reception at the Wagah border.
Sundardas, one of those stranded for the past month and a half, told media that they had gone to Jodhpur, India to perform religious rites via the Monabao border.
“We want to return to our country via the Wagah border now that the Monabao border has been closed due to the outbreak of Covid-19,” he added.
“We are lying under the open sky and our children are getting sick. Winter is also coming and we don’t have any provisions,” Sundardas lamented adding that they are surviving through the charity of some locals.
