Indian bride shares heartbreaking post after her Pakistani friend’s visa is rejected

PakistanToday

8 years ago

Purvi Thacker shared a heartbreaking Facebook post the other day explaining how her Pakistani best friend will not be by her side at her wedding as her visa got rejected by the Indian government.

I’m Indian. My bff @SarahMunir1 is Pakistani. Who can help get her a visa for my wedding in India in Dec? #humanbonds Cc @SushmaSwaraj

— Purvi Thacker (@purvi21) October 31, 2016

Sarah Munir, a Pakistani citizen working in the US, was rejected an Indian visa to attend Purvi’s wedding next month in India despite having visited the country before. In hopes to appeal the rejected visa, the two best friends are now on a mission to spread their story until it reaches the ‘right’ people.

“For all those who know mine and Sarah Munir’s friendship, you will understand how heartbroken we are that her visa application to India for my wedding in December was denied. That my best friend cannot be there for what will be my biggest day is something that I cannot come to terms with. Forget the hustling, the paperwork, the months of coordination and prayers — we didn’t know that it would end with a rejection,” Purvi wrote on Facebook.

Slamming the governments on both sides of the border, she added, “It’s extremely sad that even though we have never let religion, nationalities , our shared history and even cricket come between us, incidents like this repeatedly make us feel like we should.

“We understand that our countries shared history has huge economic and political implications, but it also takes a toll on normal mundane things like human relationships and connections. Nobody thinks about that. Being friends and being there for each other should not be this hard just because we were born on different sides of the borders.”

In the post that has since gone viral, Purvi pleaded to people to help change these notions and bring the matter to the notice of the ‘right’ people to help them.