LAHORE: The security agencies trying to find the whereabouts of the four missing Sikh pilgrims have found their belongings from a room they lived in at Hasanabdal.
They investigators also recovered a passport of an old lady Mohinder Kaur from the belongings of the missing family. The passport is stamped with the US visa. Interestingly, the woman did not come to Pakistan during the recent Vesakhi festival.
Sunil Singh - passport number MO368717 - and his wife Sunita Kaur - passport number MO331406 - as well their son Umer Singh - passport number M4424377 -- and daughter Huma Kaur -- passport number M4424537 -- are the missing pilgrims.Two separate applications have been lodged of the missing people with police - one at Hasanabdal and the other one at Tibbi City Police Lahore.
Sources in Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) told The News that none of the visiting Sikh pilgrims reported about the missing family to the concerned authorities and they came to know about it at Wagha Railway Station when they received their passports and other documents at the immigration centre before departing to India on April 20, which prompted the security agencies and the ETPB officials who started the search.
Some ETPB officials are of the view it is possible that the missing family had gone to meet some of their relatives in Pakistan and could not turn up in time. Now, the missing family may have gone into hiding due to fear.
ETPB Chairman Siddiq-ul-Farooq said the four-member Sikh family had gone missing from Hasanabdal as they recovered their belongings from a room they were allotted.To a question, he said the governments of India and Pakistan were in contact on the issue and hoped that they find the family soon.