Sarabjit Kaur is currently living in a government center located in Lahore city of Pakistan and the government of Punjab province of Pakistan is giving her 500 Pakistani rupees per day for plucking guavas.

The Pakistani government is not sending Sarabjit Kaur, a woman from Kapurthala, Punjab, back to India due to political reasons, who first went to the Nankana Sahib Gurdwara in Pakistan with Sikh groups on November 4, 2025, and then converted to Islam by marrying a Muslim man. This was revealed by a letter from the Pakistani Foreign Ministry dated January 6, obtained by ABP News. Bilal Mahmood Chaudhry, Director General of South Asia and SAARC Countries in the Pakistani Foreign Ministry, informed that Pakistan's Central Home Ministry had made an informal request to the Pakistani Foreign Ministry that Sarabjit Kaur should not be sent back to India from Pakistan due to Pakistan's political views. Following this, on January 6, the Pakistani Foreign Ministry put a stop to the process of sending Sarabjit Kaur back from Pakistan through the Attari-Wagah border.

In fact, Sarabjit Kaur had traveled to Pakistan on November 4th with an Indian Sikh group on a religious visa, which prohibited any member of the group from visiting any location in Pakistan other than the Kartarpur Sahib Corridor, Gurdwaras, and Nankana Sahib Gurdwara. Doing so would be considered a violation of the visa conditions. Despite this, when the group of Sikh pilgrims returned to India on November 14th, Sarabjit was missing from the group. According to sources, when Indian officials sought information about Sarabjit from Pakistani officials, they denied her presence in Pakistan and said she might have gotten lost somewhere along the way.

Sarabjit married Nasir on November 5.

However, the next day, Pakistani media began circulating a video of Sarabjit and photographs of his marriage certificate, which stated that Sarabjit Kaur had married Nasir Hussain, a resident of Sheikhupura district in Pakistan's Punjab province, on November 5th, converted to Islam, and changed her name to Noor Hussain. Following this, Indian agencies demanded that Pakistan deport Sarabjit. According to sources, Pakistani government representatives stated that both Sarabjit and Nasir were absconding and that the Punjab police were searching for them.

Why did Pakistan suddenly change its decision?

However, on January 4th, Pakistani agencies claimed to have located Sarabjit and announced that he was in their custody. According to sources, officials from the ISI and Pakistan's domestic intelligence agency interrogated Sarabjit during this period. Following this, Pakistani officials informed Indian authorities that the process of deporting Sarabjit to India had begun, and that since the visa he received was a "religious visa" and he had violated visa regulations, he would be deported from the Attari-Wagah border at midnight between January 5th and 6th. Although Pakistan halted the process of deporting Sarabjit Kaur to India at the last moment, citing "political reasons," Pakistan refused to deport Sarabjit, citing Mohsin Naqvi's Home Ministry.

Sarabjit Kaur plucking guavas for Rs 500

According to reports, Sarabjit Kaur is currently living in a government center in Lahore, Pakistan, and the government of Pakistan's Punjab province is paying her 500 Pakistani rupees per day for plucking guavas. In an audio recording that surfaced a few days ago, Sarabjit Kaur is heard saying that she wants to return to India and is living in very poor conditions in Pakistan, and that she had come to Pakistan not to spy but to have her secret photos deleted from Nasir Hussain's phone. In the audio, Sarabjit is also heard saying that she is being harassed in Pakistan and is forced to beg for money.

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