Sushma Swaraj meets family of Indian prisoner Ansari lodged in Pak jail

Ansari’s parents have expressed hope in the government saying they’ll find some ways to bring back their son safely. “We have full trust in the government, more so in Sushma ji. We have been given assurance,” said Hamid Ansari’s mother.

Earlier, Sushma Swaraj had directed the Indian High Commissioner in Pakistan to seek consular access to Hamid Nahel Ansari.

Hamid Nehal Ansari, a Mumbai resident arrested in 2012 for illegally entering Pakistan from Afghanistan reportedly to meet a girl he had befriended online, suffered injuries after he was attacked by inmates in the Peshawar Central Prison.

Hamid Ansari’s lawyer Mohammad Anwar also told the court that Ansari had been kept in a death cell with a hardened criminal awaiting execution for a murder.

Ansari had gone missing after he was taken into custody by intelligence agencies and local police in Kohat in 2012. In reply to a habeas corpus petition filed by his mother Fauzia Ansari, the high court was informed on January 13 that he was in custody of the Pakistan Army and was being tried by a military court.

His family also requested the Pakistani government to have mercy on their son and send him back to India. Fauzia cited other such examples when Indian nationals stranded abroad were rescued and said a Kerala priest was immediately released when the case went to the Foreign Ministry by the CM and the Prime Minister intervened.

“We continuously visit the ministries and they assure us and they are working towards it but we are still waiting for the final results,” said Hamid’s father Nihal.