An Indian man and a Pakistani bride finally tied the knot after a month-long delay due to the Pulwama attack. The bride was delayed in reaching India due to the towering tension between India and Pakistan.
Ambala: At a time when tension prevails across India and Pakistan, an Indo-Pak couple’s whose wedding was delayed eventually took place. The bride from Pakistan and the groom from India married in Ambala on Saturday.
Kiran Sarjeet Kaur (27) married Parvinder Singh (33) of Tepla village in Ambala district of Haryana at Gurudwara Shri Khel Sahib according to Sikh traditions.
Kaur's plan to reach Patiala on February 23 was delayed due to the escalating tension between India and Pakistan following the terror attack in Pulwama.
She reached Patiala on a 45-day visa by Samjhauta Express on March 7.
As the Indian Embassy in Pakistan gave her visa only for Patiala, she came to Patiala and stayed with her relatives at Samana.
The groom, Parvinder Singh and his family reached on Saturday to solemnise the marriage.
Executive member of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) Jarnail Singh Kartarpur also attended the ceremony and presented 'siropa' (robe of honour) to the bride and groom on behalf of the SGPC.
Parvinder Singh told the media their families had arranged their marriage in 2016.
He said his request for a Pakistani visa was denied last year, following which it was decided that Kaur and her family will come to India.
After solemnising the marriage, Singh said his wife, who is in India on a 45-day visa, would apply for Indian citizenship.
Singh is the youngest of three siblings, and Kaur is a distant relative of his aunt, who had stayed back in Sialkot after the partition in 1947.
They had first met in 2014, when Kiran had come to India and stayed in their village along with her family.
The Pulwama attack on CRPF men on February 14 raised tensions between the two countries. A vehicle that was loaded with explosives rammed into the convoy of CRPF personnel killing 40 of them on the spot. The terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed claimed responsibility for the attack. In retaliation, India conducted air strikes on the JeM camp.
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