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<strong>The</strong> International News Weekly INDIA<br />
November 03, 2017 | Toronto 12<br />
Modi gifts football to young Bhutan prince<br />
Agencies<br />
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister<br />
Narendra Modi gifted a<br />
football to Bhutanese Prince<br />
Jigme Namgyal Wangchuk<br />
when the Himalayan kingdom's<br />
royal family called on<br />
him at his official residence<br />
here on Wednesday evening.<br />
"Had a wonderful meeting<br />
with the King, Queen<br />
and Prince of Bhutan," Modi<br />
tweeted, along with a picture<br />
of the Prince who will<br />
turn two in February next<br />
year. "Presented the Prince<br />
of Bhutan an official football<br />
from the FIFA U-17 World<br />
Cup and a chess set," he said.<br />
In the first-ever event of the<br />
world football federation<br />
held here, India hosted the<br />
FIFA U-17 World Cup this<br />
year.<br />
Bhutanese King Jigme<br />
Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck,<br />
along with Queen<br />
Jetsun Pema Wangchuk and<br />
the Prince, arrived here on<br />
Tuesday on a four-day goodwill<br />
visit to India. <strong>The</strong> Bhutanese<br />
royal family's visit<br />
assumes significance in the<br />
wake of an over two-month<br />
standoff standoff between<br />
Indian and Chinese troops in<br />
the Doklam region of Bhutan.<br />
While India and Bhutan said<br />
that Beijing's move violated<br />
the status quo in the India-<br />
Bhutan-China international<br />
trijunction, China claimed<br />
that it was their territory.<br />
President Ram Nath Kovind<br />
appreciated the Bhutanese<br />
King's role in resolving the<br />
Doklam issue during a meeting<br />
earlier on Wednesday.<br />
External Affairs Minister<br />
Sushma Swaraj also<br />
called on the royal family<br />
here.<br />
2 Pakistani sisters<br />
freed by India after<br />
11 years<br />
Continued from page 01<br />
Although both sisters were happy to be returning<br />
to Pakistan, they had mixed feelings since their<br />
mother, Rashida Bibi, who was arrested with them<br />
in May 2006 passed away in the prison in 2008 due<br />
to illness.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y were arrested by security agencies at the<br />
Attari Railway Station for carrying drugs as they<br />
alighted from the Samjhauta Express -- the peace<br />
train between India and Pakistan.<br />
<strong>The</strong> sisters and the mother, who were heading<br />
for Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh in 2006 to meet<br />
relatives, were tried by a court here and sentenced<br />
to 10 years in prison and imposed a penalty of Rs 4<br />
lakh.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y, however, claimed that they had been<br />
framed in the drugs case.<br />
Fatima, who is from Gujranwala and was pregnant<br />
at the time of her arrest, gave birth to Heena in<br />
jail in 2006. <strong>The</strong> newborn girl lived with her mother<br />
in the prison.<br />
Although their prison term ended in November<br />
2015, they were lodged in the prison transit camp as<br />
they did not have the means to pay the penalty of<br />
Rs 4 lakh.<br />
<strong>The</strong> plight of the Pakistani sisters was taken up<br />
with the court and the union government by local<br />
lawyer Navjot Kaur.<br />
With the help of a Batala-based NGO, Sarbat Da<br />
Bhala Humanity Club, Kaur arranged the penalty<br />
money to be paid. Despite that it took almost seven<br />
months for their file in the union ministries of<br />
Home and External Affairs to move.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi<br />
completed the formalities to confer Pakistani nationality<br />
on Heena.<br />
"We are happy to be returning to Pakistan," both<br />
sisters told the media before crossing over.
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