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Two Indian sufi clerics go missing in Pakistan
March 16, 2017byEditorialEditorial
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Two Indian sufi clerics go missing in Pakistan

New Delhi, March 17: Two sufi clerics belonging to Delhi's Nizamuddin Dargah who were on a visit to Pakistan have gone missing according to their family sources.  

Saed Asif Nizami (80) and his nephew Nazim Nizami (60) went missing from Lahore and Karachi airports recently and according to family have lost touch with them as well. Sayed's son stated that his father and cousin went to Karachi in Pakistan on March 6 from where they visited Lahore on March 13 to offer "Chadar" at Baba Farid's shrine, the master of Baba Nizamuddin.  
 
"On March 14, they offered another Chadar at Data Darbar Sufi shrine in Lahore. The next day they reached at Lahore airport to take a flight for Karachi at 4.30 p.m. At the Lahore airport my cousin was stopped by the airport authorities to clear some documentation and my father was asked to board the flight. 
 
"My father reached Karachi airport at 6 p.m. but my cousin could not join him. At the airport my father talked to my relatives on phone and informed them to come outside, but he did not come," Sazid said. 
 
Sazid further said that my father and cousin's mobile phones were also switched off. "Pakistani authorities and police are still clueless about them," Sazid said.  
 
Sazid, however, added that Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar and other officials had taken the issue seriously and assured me of taking appropriate action over the issue.  

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