IHC rejects Indian woman’s plea seeking Pakistan citizenship

[Imran Khan]

IHC rejects Indian woman’s plea seeking Pakistan citizenship

Asks Samina Naz to first cede her Indian nationality



Saqib Bashir April 10, 2021

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The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Saturday ruled that Samina Naz cannot be granted Pakistan’s citizenship until she cedes her Indian nationality.
Naz had married an Indian citizen and surrendered her Pakistan nationality in 2004. She had requested the IHC to direct the interior ministry to grant her Pakistan citizenship again.
Justice Miangul Hassan issued the verdict stating that Naz’s application requesting the court to order the interior ministry to grant her Pakistan citizenship is being rejected.
The six-page court order noted that the immigration authorities’ directive for Naz to surrender her Indian citizenship was the right initiative.
It maintained that Naz married an Indian national and that she was issued documents for Indian citizenship after she had surrendered her Pakistan nationality.
Naz visited Pakistan in 2018 again on visit visa along with her children. She applied for Pakistan citizenship after her children were treated as foreign students in the country.
The verdict stated that Naz and her children could obtain Pakistan citizenship only as new citizens of the country.
According to the court order, the applicant told the court that she was born in Mianwali in 1970. In 1995, she married her Indian national cousin Dr Ata Muhammad Zulfiqar and had three children.
After the birth of her children, in 2004, she surrendered her Pakistan citizenship. In August 2019, her children passed the test admission test at the University of Health Sciences.
She said the university was charging fee from her children in the foreign students’ category, which was much higher.
She had applied for Pakistan citizenship along with her children but the interior ministry said that a decision on her application would be made after she surrenders her Indian citizenship along with all the documents.

IHC rejects Indian woman’s plea seeking Pakistan citizenship | The Express Tribune

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Saturday ruled that Samina Naz cannot be granted Pakistan’s citizenship until she cedes her Indian nationality

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[N.Siddiqui]

Pakistan can get lots of educated Muslims as immigrants from India if a policy is drafted about it, the reverse brain drain kind of thing.

As with the current dehumanization of Muslims in India.

In this case she can simply surrender her Indian nationality.

 

[khansaheeb]

very bad idea sir you want more altaf hussains?

Well we have enough Nawaz Sharifs and Zardaris. But what is Altaf Hussain got to do with this? Altaf Hussain was home grown and not an immigrant.

 

[N.Siddiqui]

very bad idea sir you want more altaf hussains?

Actually I want more hakim saeed, Abdul qadeer Khan, pervez Musharraf, noor jahan, patialas, rich memons, agha khanis, up Muslims to migrate to Pakistan...

Many engineers and professionals too in early migration. A repeat of this kind...

 

[graphican]

The better future of Muslims in India lies in dividing India into Pure Hindu and Muslim states - another time! Allowing pressed Muslims to migrate is not the solution as there are 220 million Muslims in India - how many can you absorb?

Likewise better future for Kashmiris lies in the Liberation of Kashmir from Indian occupation, not in the migration to Pakistan.

 

[Dalit]

Very good decision by IHC. In fact don't give her Pak nationality even after she cedes here Indian nationality. She willingly ceded her Pak nationality and that is no peace of cake.

 

[War Thunder]

Pakistan can get lots of educated Muslims as immigrants from India if a policy is drafted about it, the reverse brain drain kind of thing.

As with the current dehumanization of Muslims in India.

In this case she can simply surrender her Indian nationality.

There are many practicing Indian Muslims who find it hard to practice Islam in India. It's hard for a Muslim woman to want to cover herself and walk around Indian streets without attracting negative attention.

My wife is from India. She simply didn't like living in India and wanted to live and raise her kids in an Islamic country.

I bet she is not the only one.

 

[Mujahid Memon]

Pakistan can get lots of educated Muslims as immigrants from India if a policy is drafted about it, the reverse brain drain kind of thing.

As with the current dehumanization of Muslims in India.

In this case she can simply surrender her Indian nationality.

But that policy should only include educated Indian Muslims with at least Masters degree in a STEM field and 70-75% quota for women.

 

[Protest_again]

There are many practicing Indian Muslims who find it hard to practice Islam in India. It's hard for a Muslim woman to want to cover herself and walk around Indian streets without attracting negative attention.

My wife is from India. She simply didn't like living in India and wanted to live and raise her kids in an Islamic country.

I bet she is not the only one.

More Pakistani men and women should marry such people and liberate them to Pakistan.

 

[Kamikaze Pilot]

Pakistan can get lots of educated Muslims as immigrants from India if a policy is drafted about it, the reverse brain drain kind of thing.

Actually I want more hakim saeed, Abdul qadeer Khan, pervez Musharraf, noor jahan, patialas, rich memons, agha khanis, up Muslims to migrate to Pakistan...

Many engineers and professionals too in early migration. A repeat of this kind...

The triumvirate of @Indus Pakistan, @El Sidd and @PAKISTANFOREVER will work relentlessly and tirelessly to bring the idea to actual fruition.

- PRTP GWD

 

[N.Siddiqui]

triumvirate

Thnx for increasing my vocabulary...just checked the meaning.

The sarcastic jibe is valid...

 

[Bilal.]

The triumvirate of @Indus Pakistan, @El Sidd and @PAKISTANFOREVER will work relentlessly and tirelessly to bring the idea to actual fruition.

- PRTP GWD

Only Pakistani citizens can work for it against it. Personally, as a Pakistani citizen I am not for it. The opinion of non-Pakistanis don’t matter, no matter how loud.

 

[El Sidd]

The triumvirate of @Indus Pakistan, @El Sidd and @PAKISTANFOREVER will work relentlessly and tirelessly to bring the idea to actual fruition.

- PRTP GWD

She can revoke her Indianess and become Pakistani as the court say.

Fair isn't it?

 

[Varunastra]

But that policy should only include educated Indian Muslims with at least Masters degree in a STEM field and 70-75% quota for women.

You are making Pakistan sound like the US.

 

[PakFactor]

She knowingly gave up her citizenship to marry someone across the border the communal shit hole of the world, every action has a reaction. She should suffer for that, and it’s not our problem her kids are being charged foreign rates at school it’s cause they ain’t Pakistani it’s very simple. How can she claim citizenship for them when she wasn’t citizen after they were born. And lastly what she doing in Pakistan have those kids be educated in India.

Her family probably feeling the BJP/RSS heat and want to escape.