Haseena Begam
AURANGABAD: Haseena Begam had returned home to Aurangabad on January 26 after spending 18 long years in a Pakistani prison. Just after getting down from the train at the Aurangabad railway station, the 65-year-old had said it felt like she was “entering paradise.”
That happiness did not last long. Early on Tuesday morning, just a fortnight after her return home, Haseena Begam died of a heart attack.
Her relatives said that around 1.30 am on Tuesday, Begam started experiencing chest pain. She woke up her nephew Zainuddin Chishti. Soon, her health deteriorated and she was struggling even to breathe. Chishti immediately called for a doctor and an ambulance. However, before she could be taken to hospital, Begam had collapsed. The doctor who came to check her declared her dead.
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AURANGABAD: A man with suspected links to Khalistan Zindabad Force (KZF), a banned terror outfit, was arrested in Nanded city of Maharashtra and taken to Punjab on a transit remand on Sunday afternoon.
Police officers said on Tuesday that the suspect, Gurpinder Singh (37), was rounded up from the vicinity of Punjab Bhavan, near the Nanded tehsil office, but the development was kept under wraps as he had to be taken to Punjab.
“The Punjab police’s special operation cell, intelligence wing (CID), members of anti-terrorism squad and Nanded police’s LCB conducted a joint operation for about 48 hours before zeroing in on the suspect,” said the officers.
Hasina Begam with nephew Zainuddin Chisthi (white shirt) and other family members in Aurangabad
AURANGABAD: “It feels like I have entered paradise,” 65-year-old Hasina Begam said after getting down from the train at the Aurangabad railway station on Tuesday night.
It was a homecoming for Begam after spending 18 years in prison in Pakistan. She had gone to the neighbouring country to meet relatives but landed up in jail after losing her passport and other belongings as soon as she reached there. She could not tell the Pakistani police where her relatives resided as she had lost their address details too.