Priya Aditi
Seema Ghulam Haider, a Pakistani mother of four, snuck into India in 2019 to reside with a Hindu man she met on the PUBG online gaming platform. Seema and Sachin Meena, both from Greater Noida, were released from the Luksar Jail in Gautam Budh Nagar earlier this month after serving five days.
While Seema was detained on July 4 for entering India illegally without a visa via Nepal with her four children, all of whom were under the age of seven, Sachin was imprisoned for harbouring the illegal immigrants.
According to PTI, however, Seema’s neighbours and a relative have made it plain that they do not want her to return to Pakistan.
“She should simply return her children to Pakistan. She may remain there. Now she is not even a Muslim,” said the 16-year-old son of the landlord in whose rented home Seema stayed with her children for three years before deciding to enter India illegally to be with her Hindu companion.
Earlier, Seema revealed to media Ashni Dhaor that she has been her wife since March of this year, when the couple wed at the Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu.
“I cannot exist without Sachin, and because he is my husband, I have adopted his religion and culture as my own and changed the names of my four children, who call Sachin ‘Baba’. Seema, age 27 stated, “Sachin’s parents have also accepted me, and I have adopted all of their cultural practises and will continue to live with them.”
The known facts about Seema Haider
PTI reported that Seema’s residence is in a neighbourhood of Bhittaiabad a Katchi Abadi in the heart of Gulistan-e-Jauhar. It is a three-room portion in a building devoid of paint and situated on a narrow alley filled with garbage and overflowing sewers.
Ghulam Haider, her spouse, is employed in Saudi Arabia.
“She was our tenant with her children for three years. She resided with her children alone. “Her father-in-law lives a considerable distance away,” Nur Muhammad, the son of the landlord, told the news agency.
Seema and Ghulam Haider eloped to Karachi and married against their parents’ desires ten years ago.
Mian Mithoo, a prominent religious leader in rural Sindh whose seminary is notorious for converting Hindu females to Islam and even bandits, has openly threatened to punish Seema if she returns.
His supporters have also threatened to attack Hindu places of worship in Seema’s village, but Irfan Samoo, SSP of Kashmore-Kandhkot, has assured Hindus and Sikhs that they will be protected.
Samoo doubts that a woman from a rural background would have the fortitude to plan her route to India via Dubai and Kathmandu.
A police officer at the Karachi police station where Seema’s father-in-law lodged a FIR is also sceptical about the apparent simplicity of the case.
“The husband also frequently alters his statements to the authorities. First he said he bought the house, and now he says he paid Seema’s family one million rupees to resolve a tribal dispute when they fled to Karachi,” he said.
Seema and Sachin’s romance
Seema stated that they began communicating in July 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic, when they discussed how they fell in love.
“I used to converse with many strangers online while playing PubG because my microphone was always on. This is how I met Sachin, and we immediately began conversing in the chatbox. We used to play for hours at a time, sometimes for four hours without stopping to speak. After approximately four months, we exchanged phone numbers and initiated voice and video communication. By January 2021, we had declared our affection for each other,” Seema told media.
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According to the couple, they were influenced by the film Gadar, which depicts a cross-border romance between an Indian male and a Pakistani woman.
