Bastards were fat as f.k:
While this is what u did to our soldier (POW) of 1965:
Just read of a story (haven't been able to find all facts in one link but am posting the ones that mentioned most of them) of such a prisoner exchange in 2005. Among them was a mentally unstable old man unable to speak anything. According to the link posted, in his saner moments he kept writing "No.335139" whenever he was questioned about his identity. Weeks later, officials, realizing the significance of the number, handed him over to the military, under whose care he has since been. But even after months of tender and meticulous medical and psychiatric care, Maqbool Hussain still preferred to sleep on the floor, shied away from bright lights and inhabited only a small dark corner of the large VIP suite that President Musharraf had allotted to him inside a military facility. Over the months, officers and doctors assigned to him realized that he was scribbling about his 40-year ordeal in fits and starts.
Now we know, his name is Maqbool Hussain, a native of Azad Kashmir and an Army foot soldier No.335139 who fought in the 1965 Pak India war in Kashmir and as far as Pakistan was concerned he was listed missing in action and presumed dead. Turns out he was wounded and taken prisoner, denied POW status kept as prisoner and subjected to such horrible torture that he is missing his tongue, cannot speak, is mentally unstable now, missing nails on hands and feet and does not remember or recognize anything.
Unmarried but engaged at the time, his mother mother kept waiting for his return. When she died, she was buried at the entrance of the village at her request, so that she could 'meet' her son when he returned. On the homecoming of the soldier, neither his parents, nor his brother of Tarrar Khal were in this world to receive him. One of his two sisters is alive. Perhaps she would have not recognized him as he has lost his identification.
Years after gathering little pieces of information to rediscover his story there is a play released in Pakistan just recently that claims (haven't been able to find how they come up with this) he was forced to denounce Pakistan verbally and had his tongue cut when he refused and shows him writing (translated), long live Pakistan with his blood.
He was honored at the ceremony that unveiled the play where he was present, guided by another person as he walked on the stage with a blank face. Pakistani Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani walked up to greet him as he was visibly unable to understand the reason of the applause.
Maqbool Hussain has been accommodated in intensive care and full affection in Azad Kashmir Regimental Centre which is his home, now.
