New Delhi, Oct 26
Geeta, a deaf-mute girl, whose story has touched people on both sides of the border, returned here today.
Pakistan International Airlines flight PK 272 carrying 23-year-old Geeta from Karachi landed at the Indira Gandhi International Airport at around 1030 hours where she was given a warm welcome.
She was about 7 or 8 years old when she was found sitting alone on the Samjhauta Express by the Pakistan Rangers 15 years ago at the Lahore railway station.
She was adopted by the Edhi Foundation’s Bilquees Edhi
and lived with her in Karachi. Bilquis and her grandchildren,
Saba and Saad Edhi, are accompanying Geeta.
Her story came to light after the release of Salman Khan
starrer ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’ in which the hero unites a girl
separated from her Pakistani mother who was visiting India.
Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan, T C A Raghavan, and his wife had visited Geeta in August after External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj directed him to meet her and try to locate her family.
Swaraj had said that Geeta would be handed over to the
family after DNA test.
