A 35-year-old Indian woman upset over Anju’s marriage to a Pakistani man during a visit to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s northern district of Upper Dir, her father said she was too good for him, reported Hindustan Times.
The mother of two, from Kailur in Uttar Pradesh, India, legally traveled to Pakistan on July 22 and in a shocking turn of events married 29-year-old Nasrullah, whom she met on Facebook in 2019. But it was friendship.
The news of the cross-border marriage of Pakistani Seema Haider to Indian man Sachin made headlines in the two rival countries and shocked many.
One of them was Anju’s father – now known as Fatima after she converted to Islam for marriage with Nasrullah.
The father, Gaya Prasad Thomas, expressed his anger over Anju’s marriage, saying it has destroyed the future of his children, when he spoke to reporters in Buna village in Madhya Pradesh’s Gwalior district.
“The way she ran away, leaving her two children and her husband behind, she didn’t even think about her children. If she wanted to do that, she should have divorced her husband first. She is no longer (alive) for us. are,” he said.
It should be noted that according to Anju’s statement, she is divorced and no longer lives with her husband.
When Anju was asked about his conversion to Islam, he denied having any knowledge about it.
“What about her kids, her husband? Who’s going to take care of her kids (a 13-year-old girl and a five-year-old boy)? We have to do it,” Thomas said.
He said he would do “no such thing” when asked if he planned to appeal to the Indian government to bring back Anju.
“I pray that he dies there [Pakistan]. I don’t know how he got a passport, when he got a visa,” he added.
Thomas had also previously described his daughter as “mentally disturbed and eccentric”.
On Tuesday, Anju and Nasrallah got married in the local court of a District and Sessions Judge of KP.
Malakand Division Deputy Inspector General Nasir Mehmood Sati confirmed the marriage of the couple after which they were taken from the court to their home under police security.
Police confirmed that Anju legally arrived in Pakistan on July 22 through the Wagah border and had a visa to stay here for a month, but if she wanted to extend her visit, she would have to apply to the home ministry.
Anju said in a video statement released ahead of her wedding that she “feels safe here” in Pakistan.
