CHANDIGARH: A high court in Pakistan has ordered authorities to stop harassing a Sikh woman who converted to Islam and married a local Muslim man after meeting him on social media, news agency PTI reported.Sarabjeet Kaur, 48, was among around 2,000 Sikh pilgrims who entered Pakistan via the Wagah border earlier this month to attend Guru Nanak’s birth anniversary celebrations.
While most pilgrims returned to India on 13 November, Kaur went missing.A senior Lahore police officer said Kaur married Nasir Hussain from Sheikhupura district, about 50km from Lahore, on 4 November, a day after her arrival in Pakistan. She reportedly skipped a Sikh gathering at Nankana Sahib and went to Sheikhupura with Hussain.Kaur and Hussain later petitioned the Lahore high court, claiming police had conducted an illegal raid at their home in Farooqabad, Sheikhupura, and pressured them to end the marriage. Justice Farooq Haider directed the authorities to stop harassing the couple.In her petition, Kaur said a police officer had caused “undue harassment” and tried to force the marriage to be dissolved. She said her husband is a Pakistani citizen and that she has approached the Indian mission to extend her visa and obtain Pakistani nationality.A video circulating on social media shows Kaur saying she had known Hussain for nine years via Facebook. “I am a divorcee and wanted to marry Hussain; therefore, I came here for the purpose,” she said.She also said she was given the Muslim name Noor before the nikah ceremony and that she “happily married Hussain.”Kaur, a native of Amanipur village in Kapurthala district, has two sons.
