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“It is unbelievable that my husband will be home after 35 years. Life is quite unpredictable. We both have grown old now… he will be surprised to see me,” said Kaur, who works as a housemaid to make ends meet.
The good tiding reached her last night, she claimed. “We are going to receive him at Wagah border,” Kaur said, adding that they have been told that he will reach tomorrow.
Mother of two sons and a daughter, Kaur said, “Now I want to share my responsibilities with my husband.”
Meanwhile, villagers are also in an upbeat mood. GC Bhardwaj of the village had started the movement to get Kashmir Singh released during his visit to Pakistan in 2004 and 2005. Kashmir’s friend Gurdyal Singh said he was a brave man with high thinking. “We will celebrate his homecoming,” he added.
Kashmir’s brother Raghubir Singh said they had lost all hope of getting him back, but God has been kind to them. In 1977, on receiving a letter from Kashmir, the family came to know that he was in a Pak jail. Since then, they tried their best to get him back.
Notably, Kashmir, who was arrested on espionage charges in 1973 and sentenced to death by an Army court, has become a mental wreck after long years of solitary confinement. Pakistan’s caretaker Human Rights Minister Ansar Burney found him during a visit to Lahore’s Central Jail. Kashmir Singh had joined the Indian Army in 1962. He left the service after about five years. Later, he worked as a spy in Pakistan from 1968 to 1970. In 1971, he joined the police. In August 1972, he took one-day casual leave and never returned.
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