06-07-2025
Efforts on to bring back Punjab youth in custody of Pak cops; MP Sher Singh Ghubaya meets BSF DG, may approach MEA; SDM meets family
Bathinda: Two weeks after a young farmer crossed over to Pakistan from his fields at the zero line between the India and Pakistan border, efforts have been intensified to bring him back through diplomatic channels.
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Ferozepur MP Sher Singh Ghubaya met Border Security Force director general (DG) Daljit Singh Chawdhary on Saturday and urged him to reach out to Pakistan Rangers through Punjab-based officials of the BSF by holding flag meetings. Ghubaya also said he would reach out to the external affairs ministry to take up the matter at the highest levels in Pakistan.
In Punjab, the state govt officials visited the family of missing youth
(23) and assured them the matter would be taken up with chief minister Bhagwant Mann, who will be urged to take up the issue with the Union external affairs ministry.
Amritpal, a resident of Khaire Ke Uttar village in Ferozepur, had gone to see his farmland located across the fencing at the India-Pakistan border on June 21. However, he did not return home, after which the BSF approached the family.
The BSF held meetings with the Pakistan Rangers, after which, on June 27, the Pakistan Rangers confirmed that Amritpal was in the custody of the local police in Pakistan.
Bathinda: Two weeks after a young farmer crossed over to Pakistan from his fields at the zero line between the India and Pakistan border, efforts have been intensified to bring him back through diplomatic channels.
Ferozepur MP Sher Singh Ghubaya met Border Security Force director general (DG) Daljit Singh Chawdhary on Saturday and urged him to reach out to Pakistan Rangers through Punjab-based officials of the BSF by holding flag meetings. Ghubaya also said he would reach out to the external affairs ministry to take up the matter at the highest levels in Pakistan.
In Punjab, the state govt officials visited the family of missing youth Amritpal Singh (23) and assured them the matter would be taken up with chief minister Bhagwant Mann, who will be urged to take up the issue with the Union external affairs ministry.
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Amritpal, a resident of Khaire Ke Uttar village in Ferozepur, had gone to see his farmland located across the fencing at the India-Pakistan border on June 21. However, he did not return home, after which the BSF approached the family.
The BSF held meetings with the Pakistan Rangers, after which, on June 27, the Pakistan Rangers confirmed that Amritpal was in the custody of the local police in Pakistan.
