The father of Anju, a married Indian woman, who allegedly travelled legally to a remote village in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province to meet her Facebook friend, has claimed that his daughter is “mentally disturbed and eccentric” but isn't involved in any affair. He added that it was wrong on Anju's part to go to Pakistan without informing anyone, reported news agency PTI. Upper Dir District Police Officer (DPO) Mushtaq Khan said Anju came to Pakistan from India for the "sake of love" and was "living happily" in her new home.
While talking to the media in Bouna village near Tekanpur town in Gwalior, Gaya Prasad Thomas (Anju's father) said, "I came to know about it (Anju's presence in Pakistan) just yesterday. My son informed me that his 'didi' (sister) has gone there. But, I don't know about it. I have had no contact with her for the last nearly 20 years after she got married and moved to Bhiwadi (in the Alwar district of Rajasthan). She has not visited Tekanpur as I never invited her. She is mentally disturbed,” as per a report of PTI.
Thomas continued, “It is wrong on her part to go to Pakistan without informing anyone. She has two children and they are with their father. I have no contact with her. I have no idea when she went to Pakistan. My son-in-law is a very simple person. She is eccentric, but my daughter will not have any affair with her friend. She is of free nature, but she will never get into all this. I can guarantee this.” While commenting about the reason of him leaving her, he said, "I left her because of her eccentric nature."
Anju, who was born in Uttar Pradesh but lived in Alwar district of Rajasthan, travelled to Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province to meet her friend, Nasrullah, whom she befriended and fell in love on Facebook, PTI reported.
The 34-year-old became friends with Nasrullah, 29, on Facebook in 2019.
The woman will return to India on August 20 when her visa expires, her Pakistani friend Nasrulla said earlier on Monday, dismissing reports of any love affair between them. Nasrulla said he has no plan of marrying Anju. "Anju is on a visit to Pakistan and we have no plan to marry," Nasrulla told PTI in Pakistan over the phone from village Kulsho in Upper Dir district, some 300 km from Peshawar.
"She will go back to her country on August 20 after her visa expires. Anju is living in a separate room of my home with the other female members of my family," he said. According to an official document of the Ministry of Interior sent to Pakistan's High Commission in New Delhi, the chancery was informed that it had been decided to grant a 30-day visa to Anju, valid for Upper Dir only.