Amritsar: Tina Sharma, Indian mother of two, who crossed the border to Pakistan on a tourist visa for marrying her Muslim boyfriend Muhammad Suleman and became Aishya after embracing Islam, now wants to see her parents and relatives but the Indian government isn’t renewing her passport.
Sharing with TOI on Monday that she had approached the Indian high commission in Pakistan for passport renewal, she said: “It is necessary for getting an Indian visa, so I request to the Indian government to do the needful.” Her husband said his wife missed her parents and other family but her passport had expired, while her case for Pakistani citizenship was pending.
In 2015, Tina fell in love with Suleman of Gujranwala in Pakistan’s Punjab province while playing an online game. On October 24, 2018, she went to Pakistan and married Suleman in five days after embracing Islam.
An alleged victim of domestic violence, she had gone to Pakistan never to return. She married Suleman, who runs a service station in Gujranwala, and is now mother to his two-and-a-half-year-old son, Aiza, and a nine-month-old daughter, Zayna. In the earlier days of her marriage, Aishya would call her children back home but wouldn’t get any response from the family.
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