She was around eight years old when Pakistani authorities found
her disoriented and lost on a train and sent her to a destitute home in
Lahore.
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Geeta, Meetu, Guddi, Fatima... no one knows the real name of this
21-year-old deaf and mute Indian woman stranded in Pakistan for 13 years
now. Related: India yet to identify prisoner who died in Pakistan jail
She was around eight years old when Pakistani authorities found
her disoriented and lost on a train and sent her to a destitute home in
Lahore. Last year, she was shifted to Karachi and lives with a family
that runs a charity orphanage there.
Since August last year, officials have made new attempts to find
her family, with Indian High Commission officials in Pakistan getting
consular access to meet her.
'Geeta', sources said, can write a bit in Hindi and has managed
to convey that she is from India and that her mother called her 'Guddi'.
She was apparently sleeping on a train with her mother, who was not
there when she woke up. Officials gathered that her father's name was
probably Anil and her mother was called Amat.
Officials suspect she belongs to either Gujarat or Rajasthan or
Punjab and the external affairs ministry wrote to the state governments
in April to try and trace her family.
Punjab Police began hunting for her family in May and spread
information to border police stations. 'Geeta's' pictures have been
pasted on village walls too.
"We are trying our best to find Geeta's family. In case anyone
has any information about this unfortunate child's family they should
get in touch with the local police," said R K Jaiswal, DIG
(Intelligence), Punjab.
Source : DNA ,Chandigarh ; 20th August 2013
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