Peshawar: A Hindu Pakistani couple, who allegedly renounced their Pakistani citizenship in 1999 and now want it to be restored to them, have been asked by the Pakistani Interior Ministry to deposit Rs 50 lakh as a prerequisite for processing their application.
In 1999 the couple - Kaniya Lal and Nisha Lal - had gone to India to see Nisha's ailing parents, but returned in 2004, and since then their stay has been repeatedly extended.
Lately, after they were told to deposit the sum, the couple moved the Peshawar High Court challenging the unjust demand.
Subsequently, the HC directed the interior division to file a reply in this regard, but the two-member bench of the Court hearing the petition was informed by the country’s deputy attorney-general that the interior division had yet not filed comments as per the directives of the highcourt.
The bench directed that comments should be positively filed before the next date of hearing. The petition has already been admitted for full hearing.
According to the Pakistani daily Dawn, the petition, jointly filed by the couple, challenged the letter of the interior division sent to them by a section officer wherein they were directed to deposit Rs 50 lakh for getting the Pakistani citizenship back.
Kaniya Lal is a Pakistani national by birth.
In 1983 he married Nisha who was an Indian national, but after their marriage she also got Pakistani citizenship.
However, when they visited India in 1999 they renounced their citizenship, said the report.
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