INDIAN CLERICS ARE SAFE, WILL REACH DELHI TODAY: SUSHMA SWARAJ

NEW DELHI: Two Indian clerics, including the head priest of Delhi’s Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah, who went missing in Pakistan, are safe and will be back in the city on Monday, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Sunday. “I just spoke to Syed Nazim Ali Nizami in Karachi. He told me that they are safe and will be back in Delhi tomorrow,” she said in a tweet. The two clerics –Syed Asif Nizami, the head priest (Sajjadanashin) of Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia Dargah, and his nephew Nazim Ali Nizami, had gone to Lahore on March 8 and were to return to India on March 20. The main purpose of the visit of 80-year-old Asif to Pakistan was to see his sister in Karachi. Pakistan had conveyed to India that the clerics were traced and reached Karachi Saturday evening.