JAISALMER: Two brothers of Baeeya village in Jaisalmer, who had married Pakistani girls a year ago and were unable to bring them home due to strained bilateral relations, will finally live together.
The Indian embassy in Pakistan has issued visas to Chaggan Kanwar and Nirmal Kanwar and they are expected to reach India in a week.
Reportedly, the Indian embassy has given the visa to India via Dubai, but their family members are trying to come on foot through Wagah border. After marriage, the brides did not get the visa and the baraat had to return without them.
They had applied for visa but due to technical reasons their visas were dismissed thrice. Efforts were made to get them visas and even a memorandum was submitted to Union minister Kailash Choudhary, who wrote to the foreign ministry.
He said that Nepal Singh (26) and Vikram Singh (24) got married to Chaggan and Nirmal at Shranoi town in Sindh province of Pakistan last January. As the brides did not get visa, the brothers had to return without them.
Back home, the brothers are eagerly waiting for their wives. Vikram said his wife Nirmal, son Raju, her father Tane Raj Singh and mother along with Nepal's wife Chhagan, her father Ram Singh and mother Ugam Kanwar are coming to Jaisalmer in 8-10 days.
In a similar case, the baraat of Mahendra Singh of Barmer went to Pakistan by Thar Express in 2019. Mahendra got married to daughter of Rann Singh Sodha at Shranoi town but till date he is waiting for his wife to arrive from Pakistan.