Love during online ludo: The girl who went to India illegally returned to Pakistan

Lahore: A 19-year-old Pakistani girl, who went to India illegally after falling in love with an Indian youth while playing online Ludo, returned to Pakistan after being released from an Indian jail.

India's Border Security Force (BSF) handed over 19-year-old Iqra Jiwani to Pakistan Rangers at the Wagah border in Lahore on Sunday evening.

Iqra Jiwani, a resident of Karachi, fell in love with Mulayam Singh, a 26-year-old boy from Uttar Pradesh, India, while playing an online Ludo game. This friendship grew so much that both of them decided to get married.

Iqra Jiwani attempted to obtain a visa to enter India but was unsuccessful; as a result, Mulayam Singh advised her to travel to Nepal where he would cross the border to bring her to India.

Iqra said that on September 19, 2022, she went from Karachi to Kathmandu Nepal where she married Mulayam Singh and from there both reached Nepal/India border crossing in Bangalore.

Here, Iqra described herself as a Hindu girl, but one day the neighbors saw her praying inside the house. She was detained by Bangalore police in January 2023, and they also found her Pakistani passport.

Iqra Jiwani was handed over to Pakistan Rangers at Wagah border yesterday, she will be handed over to her family after routine interrogation.