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A new anxiety grips Kashmir Singh’s wife

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ALMOST THERE: Paramjit Kaur, wife of Kashmir Singh, alias Ibrahim, waiting for her husband at the Attari Wagah border on Saturday. —

ATTARI (PUNJAB): Having waited 35 years, Paramjit Kaur is glad to be reuniting with her husband Kashmir Singh, who spent half his life in Pakistani jails, and also anxious about know how to break the news about his mother’s death two months ago.

“Kashmir’s mother Swaran Kaur died just two-and-a-half months back in December 2007. Throughout her life, she used to weep and go to the Gurdwara so that God sends her son back. But that was not to be,” Ms. Paramjit, who is in this border town of Amritsar district, said.

She has come here with her brother Tarlok Singh, son Shispal Singh and former AIR news director G.C. Bharadwaj — who spearheaded the campaign for the death row prisoner’s release from Lahore jail — to welcome her husband back to India.

Disappointed

They were a bit disappointed when told the former Indian soldier will officially be repatriated on Monday.

Some media reports said he could be released any time as the documentation was complete from both sides — governments of India and Pakistan — leading to the confusion.

“I don’t want to lose any time; that’s why I am here on Indo-Pak border,” Ms. Paramjit told PTI.

She is also apprehensive about the emotions when they finally meet, for she was just 25 and her husband was 30 when he was arrested by the Pakistani authorities on the charge of spying. — PTI

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