Rescued Pak sailors touched by India's ‘love and kindness’

Jun 25, 2011 |

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Five Pakistani sailors, who are put up in a police station in south Mumbai after being rescued from the seas since March and will soon be moving back to their homeland, on Friday said they were touched by the ‘love, kindness and help’ extended to them in India.

The sailors, who had been rescued by the Indian Navy from the high sea said that they would take the ‘mohabbat ka paigam’ (message of love) to Pakistan from India.

The five sailors – Aurangzeb Nabi Bakhsh Balloch (24), his younger brother Sajjad Ali Balloch (19), Lal Bakhsh Murid Khan (20), Farhad Aalam Khan (24) and Mohammed Umair (18) – spoke to reporters after an officer from the Pakistani Consulate met them on Friday morning and informed them that they would be taken back to Pakistan in the coming few days.

Aurangazeb said they were treated very well during the three months they were in the police station.

"I cannot forget the moments that I have spent in India. I am happy that I am going to my country, but also sad that I am leaving India," he said.

Responding to a question on 26/11 convict Ajmal Kasab, currently lodged in Arthur Road, Aurangazeb said, "I do not want to talk anything about him (Kasab). Shoot him (Kasab)."

He said that there was one moment he would never forget – when India won the Cricket World Cup final in April.

"We were watching the match in the police station. I was happy that India won the match," he said, adding, "I did feel a little upset that Pakistan had lost but at the same time, I was also happy that India won. Because I was already moved by the love, kindness and help extended to us by Indians."

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