Absconding Pak cricket fan nabbed by BSF

Amritsar, Aug 26 (UNI) A 22-year-old Pakistani national Mursaleen, who went missing after the Indo-Pak cricket match in Mohali last year, has been nabbed by the Border Security Force from the border area, near here.

The Pakistani youth, who was produced before the Judicial Magistrate (First Class) Baljinder Singh today, was sent to two-day police custody.

According to BSF sources, Mursaleen claimed that after the Mohali match he decided to visit the Taj Mahal and the Jama Masjid before going back to Pakistan.

However, he was ''kidnapped'' in New Delhi by some unidentified people who had kept him captive till recently, he said.

He said he managed to ''escape'' from their clutches a few days back but had lost his passport. He somehow boarded a train in Delhi and reached here.

He was trying to go back to Pakistan on foot through Wagah border when the BSF personnel nabbed him in Gharinda area near G T road police station on Thursday.

An FIR was then lodged and case registered under Foreigners Act and Passport Act.

Mursaleen was among the 11 Pakistanis who became untraceable after the Indo-Pak series in March last year.

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