
” Mera Bharat mahaan, meri madam mahaan, sab madam ne hi kiya hai (My India is great, my madam is great. You did everything).Don’t ask me much today. I want to thank the governments of India and Pakistan for making my son’s release possible. We are thankful to God”
Ansari’s mother Fauzia
“I feel really good coming back home. I am very emotional right now.” Hamid Ansari
In 2012, Ansari was detained by Pakistan’s agencies after he crossed over to Pakistan from Afghanistan .In 2015, a Pakistani military court sentenced him to three years’ imprisonment for possessing a fake identity card
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