Indo-Pak Love Story: It goes as filmi as you dig deeper into the love story of Seema Haider and Sachin. For a few days now, the duo are making headlines as a woman gamer from Pakistan's Karachi crossed International Border to meet her love of life in India. Sachin, an Indian man, who is obsessed with playing PUBG came across Seema Haider, a woman gamer, in 2019. They started spending hours online every day, and their bond deepened to the extent that she left home -- along with her four children -- to be with him.
Both were arrested
Seema is around 30 while Sachin is about 25 and lives in the Rabupura area of Greater Noida. A few days back, both were arrested by the police in connection with her illegal stay in India. However, on Friday they were granted bail by a court in Uttar Pradesh's Greater Noida.
How Seema crossed the border?
In an exclusive conversation with India TV, Seema made shocking revelations about how she crossed the Internation Border to meet Sachin in India without a visa. Seema said that she was living in Karachi for 7-8 years but her village is far away from there. Initially, she used to play the online game- PUBG with Sachin. Gradually, their bond deepened and they exchanged their contact numbers.
"We used to video call each other and show our country. When there was a procession etc., he (Sachin) used to show it too. I found it exciting that he is from India and I am from Pakistan and we are talking. Then we thought of meeting but neither Sachin had a passport nor I had. My first passport got rejected because my name was only Seema. Then, I got a passport made again in the name of Seema Ghulam Haider, and my visa was attached to it." she said.
Seema landed in Nepal
Seema further informed that "many times Sachin gave money to the passport holders, but failed to receive a visa. Then we came to know about Nepal and that Indians can come there without a visa. So I told him to come there. When he came, there was no strict checking. So it decided to come again from this route."
Seema told that she had applied for a visa to come to India from Pakistan several times but could not get it. "Among Muslims, when 100 people apply for an Indian visa from Pakistan, only one is accepted. Had I got the visa, I would not have had to go to jail. Perhaps India-Pakistan doesn't share a great bond, that's why they don't give visas to everyone," Seema said.
See full interview HERE-
