Hindustan Times (Chandigarh)

PAK NATIONAL REPATRIATE­D

- HT Correspond­ent

AMRITSAR In a goodwill gesture, the Border Security Force (BSF) sent back a 50-year-old Pakistani national, a day after he inadverten­tly crossed over to the Indian territory at border out post Kassowal in Gurdaspur sector.

On February 26, BSF troops in the Gurdaspur Sector apprehende­d Sabir Hussain of Satapgarh village in Pakistan’s Narowal when he crossed internatio­nal border and entered inside the Indian side, said a BSF official. He said the Pakistan Rangers were contacted on Monday and Sabir was handed over to them on humanitari­an grounds.

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