Crossed over to Pakistan in 2008, Kutch man returns home after 13 years
Crossed over to Pakistan in 2008, Kutch man returns home after 13 years
Kutch resident Ismail Sama had crossed over to Pakistan in 2008 by mistake. 13 years later, he has returned home back to his family.
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Ismail Sama had crossed over to Pakistan by mistake in 2008. (Photo: India Today)
Ismail Sama, a resident of Gujarat s Kutch, has returned back home to India after spending 13 years in Pakistan jail. In 2008, he had crossed over Pakistan by mistake while grazing his herd of cows.
What happened? I had lost my direction and next morning around 10:30 am, Pakistan rangers caught me, telling me I had intruded into their country. They took me to hospital and after my condition improved, they handed me over to inter service’s intelligence(ISI), he said.
Gujarat cattle herder who crossed over to Pakistan in 2008 returns to India
Sama reached Amritsar after crossing over to the Indian territory through Wagah-Attari international border on Friday, officials at Attari said.
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AHMEDABAD: A cattle herder from Gujarat s Kutch district, who had inadvertently crossed over to Pakistan in 2008 and was arrested there on charges of spying, has finally returned to India after languishing in the neighbouring country s jails, officials said.
Ismael Sama, 60, from Nana Dinara village in Kutch, located some 60 kms from the Pakistan border, had mistakenly crossed over to Pakistan while grazing his cattle.
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Ahmedabad/Amritsar, January 23
A cattle herder from Gujarat’s Kutch district, who had inadvertently crossed over to Pakistan in 2008 and was arrested there on charges of spying, has finally returned to India after languishing in the neighbouring country’s jails, officials said.
Ismael Sama, 60, from Nana Dinara village in Kutch, located some 60 km from the Pakistan border, had mistakenly crossed over to Pakistan while grazing his cattle.
He was arrested and kept in the jails of that country before he was released two days back following the Islamabad High Court’s order on a plea moved by the Indian High Commission there.