Fauzia will hear her son Hamid Ansari's voice and meet him in person after six long years when he returns to India from Pakistan through Wagah border in Punjab on Tuesday.
"This is the moment we have been waiting for years now. I had last spoken to Hamid on November 10, 2012. It is the God who tests us and it is he who gives us happiness," said Versova resident Fauzia with a heavy voice.
Fauzia gives all the credit to Allah, well-wishers, the government and media that aggressively reported the plight of her son. In search of his love, Hamid had entered Pakistan via Afghanistan in 2012, only to be branded a spy and jailed.
"We met senior government officials for at least six to seven times since 2012 and they helped us a lot. They made us feel very homely and were very supportive," said the mother.
As they joined the pieces after his disappearance, Hamid's parents learnt that their son wanted to help one Nadia Khan of Kohat, Pakistan, who was apparently distressed over her impending marriage. The family said Hamid was in touch with six Pakistani nationals through social media. According to Hamid's Pakistani friend who the family contacted, Hamid had crossed the Afghan border at Jalalabad and reached Peshawar in Pakistan.
Hamid, an engineering and management graduate, lived with mother Fauzia, a junior college teacher, and father Nihaal, a bank employee at Yari Road, Versova.
He was aiming a job in aviation sector. He had heard about the airline industry in Kabul and had told his family that opportunities there are immense. He managed to persuade his family to let him go.
On November 04, 2012, Hamid left for Afghanistan on a three-month tourist visa. He was in touch with his family for a period of one week when he was in Afghanistan. He was supposed to be back home by November 15. But he did not turn up thereafter. His parents later learnt that he had been arrested in Pakistan. A military court convicted him of "spying" and "anti-state" activities and handed him a 3-year sentence.
"We reached Delhi on Monday to meet government officials after we came to know Hamid would return to India on Tuesday, Fauzia told DNA over phone from Delhi. "Initially, I did not believe that Hamid is finally coming back home safely. I still do not know if it is a reality or an illusion that Hamid is coming back. I will be restless till the time I see him in person."
FB CHATS AND DISAPPEARANCE
- Hamid Ansari headed for Kabul on the pretext of taking up a job in Afghanistan. Soon, he went incommunicado
- Hamid’s family later discovered his Facebook chats with a Pak woman and his cross-border love story
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