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Don’t fall in love on Facebook, jailed Indian warns
MUMBAI, Dec 21, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – An Indian man released this week after
being jailed for six years in Pakistan issued advice on Friday not to follow
his example and fall in love on Facebook.
Hamid Nehal Ansari illegally entered Pakistan from Afghanistan in 2012 to
meet a woman he had fallen for on the social media network.
But Pakistani police were waiting for him at the woman’s house and
arrested him on the spot. The engineer was later jailed for spying and
forging documents.
“Do not be emotional about strangers and don’t fall in love on social
media including Facebook,” Ansari told AFP three days after being released
and returning to India.
Local media showed Ansari hugging his mother and bowing to touch his head
to the ground after crossing over to India at an overland border on Tuesday.
“Getting deported was the happiest moment of my life,” the 33-year-old
later said by phone from his home in Mumbai.
“(Now I will) start a business, get married and work on building back my
life. No more social for me,” Ansari said.
Arch-rivals Pakistan and India have fought three major wars since
independence from Britain in 1947. They routinely arrest each other’s
citizens on spying charges.
BSS/AFP/ARS/1459 hrs