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The news said her husband claims they have all documents which show that they had applied for extention as well as citizenship but to no avail.
there are many illegals staying in India and they also vote in Indian elections. This is funny that the Indian law is only for Pakistanis and that too Muslims.
Vasantha says her daughter went to Pakistan to get married without informing her family because she feared reprisals by Hindu fundamentalists in India.
Good Lord, her parents sent her to Ukraine to study medicine, and the next thing they know is that she has embraced Islam, and is living in Mardan, NWFP, married to a Pakistani who abandoned his studies. All I can say is that may everybody involved be happy.
Hafsa (Divya Dayanandan from Kerala, India) gets Pakistani citizenship
By B. Muralidhar Reddy
ISLAMABAD, SEPT. 24. Pakistan today granted citizenship to an Indian woman doctor married to a Pakistani.
Amman Khan, a Pakistani national and Dr. Hafsa fell in love in 1995 while studying medicine in Ukraine. They got married on July 16, 2003 in Karachi, after she embraced Islam. On August 3 last, she gave birth to a baby boy.
Dr. Hafsa, earlier known as Divya Dayanandan from Kerala, was ordered to leave Pakistan after the Government refused to extend her visa.
Mr. Aman Khan moved the Peshawar High Court seeking a stay against the deportation of his wife. The court granted stay for two months until September 19. The Interior Ministry also extended the stay permit for two months.
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Here is a little history
'I fear for my daughter's life in Pakistan'
The hopes of an Indian doctor, who fell in love with a Pakistani and married him, now hinge on a little baby boy she delivered on August 3.
Dr Divya Dayanandan hopes the Pakistan government will grant her citizenship because she has given birth to her first child in Pakistan.
Divya, who hails from Kerala's Kayamkulam town, is the only daughter of Dayanandan and Vasantha. She fell in love with her classmate Aman Khan when they were studying medicine at the Lovo Medical School in Ukraine.
Khan abandoned his studies midway and returned to Pakistan, but their love grew over telephone calls.
Soon after getting her degree, Divya headed to Pakistan and married Khan in August 2003. She changed her name to Hafsa and converted to Islam and settled down with Khan in Mardan in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province.
But marital bliss didn't last too long. Divya's application for Pakistani citizenship was rejected by the interior ministry and she was ordered to leave the country.
Khan challenged the order in the high court in the northwestern city of Peshawar and secured a stay. The case is expected to come up for hearing in coming weeks.
But their troubles are not restricted to an insensitive interior ministry. The couple also fear attacks from religious extremists given the state of Indo-Pak relations.
NWFP is one the most conservative provinces in Pakistan.
'I am deeply concerned why the Pakistan government has not granted citizenship to my wife even though it was granted routinely in the past. The law says the spouse of a Pakistani citizen is entitled to citizenship. Now I am told that living in Pakistan is very dangerous since I married a Hindu girl,' newspapers have quoted Khan as saying.
Back in India, Divya's mother is worried.
"I pray every day so that my daughter and her child come to Kerala with her husband. This is a better place to settle down for my daughter and son-in-law," Vasantha Dayanandan told rediff.com
Vasantha says her daughter went to Pakistan to get married without informing her family because she feared reprisals by Hindu fundamentalists in India.
"I am now eager to see my grandson. I talk to my daughter over the telephone often. I am sure nobody here [in India] will have any problems because my daughter married a Pakistani. I fear for her life if she stays in Pakistan," Vasantha said.
Vasantha has sent a request to External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh to take up her daughter's plight with the Pakistani government.
She has also approached local MP C S Sujatha, requesting her to meet Singh. "I wish my daughter returns and settles down here. I plead with her every day," says Vasantha.
And here are they happily married
The news said her husband claims they have all documents which show that they had applied for extention as well as citizenship but to no avail.
there are many illegals staying in India and they also vote in Indian elections. This is funny that the Indian law is only for Pakistanis and that too Muslims.
LOL ....she married a loser who did not even finish graduation to become a muslim pakistani ? ....she deserves the hell she's been sent too .......... I wold love to hear from her again in 15 years : She would be begging and pleading for her kid to grow up in India
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nobody in Pakistan wants this ****** since she is been tainted by a HINDUstani! She should stay in Bharat for all we care
do u even know how u sound???? " Tainted by a HINDUSTANI" is this how u refer to other women in India??? Get a life bro..learn to respect women..oh wait i forgot, she is tainted by a hindustani so NO ONE CARES............RI8....
LOL ....she married a loser who did not even finish graduation to become a muslim pakistani ? ....she deserves the hell she's been sent too .......... I wold love to hear from her again in 15 years : She would be begging and pleading for her kid to grow up in India :
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Same for Indian poster who said
nobody in Pakistan wants this ****** since she is been tainted by a HINDUstani! She should stay in Bharat for all we care
Pakistan should welcome the couple instead..another rising and shining miracle of indian democracy...dividing families..destroying future.
Screw them to. Pakistan does not need these sluts in the country. they can happly live in Hindustan