A Pakistani Hindu stuck in India with three children after his wife died in April is pleading with the authorities to let him return to his country before Independence Day, August 14. “I am broken,” says Ajeet Kumar Nagdev, 41, speaking on phone in Urdu from Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh. His wife Rekha Kumari, 38, died on April 22, a day before the last Attari-Wagah border opening. The pandemic had already impacted Nagdev’s livelihood. With Rekha’s death, he can’t leave the children and go out to work. When Nagdev and Rekha left Usta Mohammad in 2010 with their two young sons, they thought they would have a better life in India. According to the Pakistan High Commission in Delhi, there are over 600 Pakistanis in India waiting to go back.
— source thewire.in | 10/Aug/2021