Naseer returns home to Pakistan with unfulfilled ‘Bollywood dream’

“I am lucky that I did not face trouble here; the Indian authorities were helpful. My message for the other boys is that they should not venture out of home like me,” said Naseer, who was brought here from the juvenile home in Faridkot where he had been lodged for over three months. A resident of Dir village in North West Frontier Province, Naseer had left home for school, but instead took a bus to Lahore, and then to Kasur to enter India illegally on August 16. He was apprehended by the BSF jawans and later arrested. “The first thing I will do on meeting my family is to seek their forgiveness for my misadventure. Also, my Matriculation examinations are around the corner, so I will concentrate on studies,” said Naseer.

“I will request the authorities that the other boys lodged in Indian jails, including Sunil, also be released,” he said, who took back clothes, sweets, chocolates and video CDs of Shah Rukh’s films as gifts from India.