Kupwara: Pakistani authorities will be handing over the dead body of a Ladakhi woman today on the request by the Indian authorities for the repatriation, as a humanitarian gesture. The body of the woman would be handed over by the Pakistan army to the Indian counterparts along the Karnah sector along the Line of Control in Kupwara district. ALSO READ | Jammu & Kashmir: Sopore Police Bust Terror Module Of Al-Badr Outfit


The woman, who has been identified as Khair-un-Nissa daughter of Mohammad Ibrahim of Turtuk Leh, had drowned near her residence on August 26 this year, the officials said. She fell in the Shayok river and was washed away over 10 km into PoK’s Baltistan region.

Later her dead body was recovered on the Pakistani side of Kashmir and was identified through pictures shared by the Pakistani officials to concerned quarters here.

Earlier the family of the deceased women had written a letter to the authorities in Ladakh seeking intervention of the External Affairs ministry in the recovery and repatriation of the body.

With the border in Ladakh tense, it will take at least seven days for the body of 30-year-old woman, Kherun Nissa, to cover 4 km to reach home for burial in the Turtuk as Pakistani authorities have decided to hand over the body in Kupwara, some 650 KM away from Turtuk. The family was hoping that the body would be handed over at the nearest border checkpoint at Thang village in Turtuk Block.

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