Not less than 150 Pakistani Sindhi ladies engaged to males in India have now travelled to the nation for his or her weddings after their plans have been disrupted by visa restrictions and the closure of the Wagah-Attari border route following Operation Sindoor.
Neighborhood chief Rajesh Jhambia stated the Centre later issued visas to the brides and their kin, permitting them to achieve India by way of transit routes in different nations. “The lengthy wait is over, lastly,” Jhambia stated on Sunday.
Jhambia, who works for Sindhi migrants from Pakistan, informed PTI that households from Sindh had for years travelled to India by way of the Wagah-Attari border in Punjab for such marriages. “The brides and their kin have arrived in India by way of transit routes through Muscat, Dubai, Sri Lanka and different nations,” he stated.
He stated the scenario modified after Operation Sindoor, as visas have been rejected for these planning to enter by way of Attari. Operation Sindoor was a 2025 army marketing campaign launched by India in response to a lethal terrorist assault in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, through which 26 civilians have been killed.
Jhambia stated the group then approached Raipur-based Sant Yudhishtirlal Shadaani, the religious head of Shadaani Darbar, a distinguished Hindu spiritual shrine in Ghotki in Pakistan’s Sindh province. He stated the shrine started making ready a listing of Pakistani ladies engaged to males in India. “There have been about 150 brides who have been to be married in Nagpur, Raipur, Jodhpur, Pune and different cities in India,” he stated.
In response to Jhambia, the temple contacted the Ministry of Residence Affairs with the record and urged the authorities to facilitate visas for the brides and their households. The ministry allowed them to enter India on the situation that they might journey solely by air. “Since April this 12 months, 150 brides and their households from Pakistan have travelled to India through Dubai, Oman, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and different nations for weddings. These embody 15 circumstances from Nagpur,” he stated.
Jhambia stated almost 300 extra such ladies in Pakistan are nonetheless ready, and the group has requested the Indian authorities to subject visas to them as nicely. For now, he stated, 150 brides and their households have been in a position to attain India by way of different air routes after the border restrictions put their weddings on maintain.
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With PTI inputs
