SRINAGAR, June 21: An 18-year-old girl of Azad Kashmir disliked her husband-to-be so much that she fled to occupied Kashmir in a high-altitude trek across one of the world’s deadliest borders, reports said on Thursday.
Anida Khan made it safely over the Line of Control, where Indian troops are posted in huge numbers to shoot infiltrators, before she was arrested.
“During questioning she revealed that her parents wanted her to marry against her wishes,” the English-language Excelsior newspaper said on Thursday.
“She deserted her house and crossed the Line of Control to escape the wrath of her parents.”
Anida is now in police custody in occupied Kashmir, pending a decision on whether she should be sent back to Azad Kashmir, the paper said.—AFP
