Roheela, who has been searching for her father in jails in India for over a year, on Friday rejected claims made by Indian media that her father died in the Samjhota Express carnage.
Addressing media at her home, Roheela, who belongs to Hafizabad, said she was certain her father was alive and she had proof.
She said she had been searching for her father in jails in India for over a year before she registered a case.
She told media she has visited India thrice and will go again next month after receiving a letter from Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
She refuted claims made by Indian media that her father died in the Samjhota Express tragedy since her DNA matched one of the victims.
She said she learnt about the arrest of seven persons in India through a letter by the Interior Ministry after which news of her father’s death emerged in media. She termed the news ‘propaganda against her family’.
She said she had been trying to get an Indian visa for a year but to no avail. She said the Indian government was not cooperating in the search for her father. She asked the Pakistan government to help her find her father.
According to official records in India, the person buried in a grave number 38 at Mehrana village is Hafizabad resident Mohammad Vakeel. Vakeel came to India on February 14, 2007 to meet relatives at Bhasani village in Muzaffarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh. He bid farewell to his relatives on February 17 and left for Pakistan. His family, however, remained uncertain whether he boarded the Samjhota Express, which made them believe that he could have been lodged in one of the jails in the country.
Roheela then started searching for her father across 60 jails of the country, but her attempts proved futile.
