Fauzia Ansari, mother of 34-year-old Hamid who is currently biding time in a Pakistan jail rushed to catch a train from Borivali station in Mumbai to Amritsar. Anxiety ridden and trembling with fear, she wondered if she would be able to catch the train after getting caught in the infamous evening rush in the city.

However what lies ahead gives her more pangs of anxiety. She is trying to meet Sartaj Aziz, Foreign Policy advisor of Pakistan who will be in Amritsar on Dec 3 for inter-minesterial Heart of Asia Conference. Fauzia pleads of help, she says "I don't know anyone there, I have never been to Amritsar, I don't know how things will go. I have just made placard and will stand outside the venue." Fauzia and her husband Nehal who is an advocate board the train which will reach Amritsar on Dec 2. "it's like jumping into the sea, I don't know what will happen but I have to try for my son. Have been trying everything that can get my son back to me. Nothing has worked so far in all these years. For him i have to keep trying." She said.

PLEAD TO SARTAJ AZIZ FOR HELP

Fauzia had been pursuing with the Pakistan Embassy for any help they could render either by consular access or a day's visa to meet her son at Pakistan Jail but all her efforts yielded no results so she stopped pursuing on that front. However she read about Aziz's visit to holy city in a newspaper a week earlier and immediately planned a trip to Amritsar with her husband to reach the conference venue. All she intends to do is stand outside with placards requesting Hamid be sent back to her. She hopes that she will get a personal audience with Aziz and convey to him that her son has been wrongly detained in a Pakistan jail and will try to convince them to send her son home.

WHO IS HAMID?

Hamid, a resident of Mumbai had travelled to Afghanistan and landed in Pakistan to save a girl he had fallen in love with. He was arrested by Pakistan Police on charges of espionage as he did not have the relevant travel documents. He had already spent three years in jail while he was convicted and was ordered to serve a three years sentence. His parents pleaded that his time spent in jail as an under-trial should be commuted and he be released.

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