Geeta flies to Delhi to be reunited with long-lost family

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Geeta to salutes the media before leaving for the airport from the EDHI Foundation in Karachi.
Geeta to salutes the media before leaving for the airport from the EDHI Foundation in Karachi.

Karachi - Known only as Geeta, she was unable to identify herself or say where she came from when she wandered over to Pakistan.

By AFP

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Published: Mon 26 Oct 2015, 8:01 AM

Last updated: Mon 26 Oct 2015, 10:50 AM

A young deaf and mute Indian woman who strayed into Pakistan more than 10 years ago flew to Delhi on Monday to be reunited with the people she believes are her family, the charity caring for her said.
Known only as Geeta, she was unable to identify herself or say where she came from when she wandered over to Pakistan.
Now believed to be aged in her early 20s, she has remained in Pakistan under the care of the country's largest welfare organisation, the Edhi Foundation, living in a shelter in the port city of Karachi.
"We are happy that finally she is going home," Faisal Edhi, son of the foundation's founder Abdul Sattar Edhi, told media outside the charity's office in downtown Karachi.
After repeated false leads in the effort to find her family, Geeta's story received a publicity boost in August when a Bollywood film with a similar story became a smash hit.
The Indian government vowed to bring her home, and Geeta eventually identified an unnamed family from Bihar state as being her relatives.
She will undergo DNA testing in India before being handed over to the family, Bilqees Edhi, wife of the organisation's founder said.


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