Pak High Commission official to meet woman who claims to be Pakistani

An official of the Pakistan High Commission in Delhi will be visiting Shimla on Saturday to meet a Muslim woman inmate of a shelter house who has claimed to be a Pakistani national, according to an NGO.

Quoting a communication received from the High Commission, Chairman of Umang Foundation Ajai Srivastava said Abdul Rahman, Legal Adviser in the Mission, will reach Shimla on Saturday evening and visit on Sunday Nari Sewa Sadan at Mashobra near Shimla where she is lodged.

The 45-year-old woman identifies herself as Mahammada and claims that she hails from Mohalla Noorana in Gujarat district of Pakistan, according to Srivastava.

Srivastava said the visit of the Pakistani official will help in solving the mystery about the woman's identify.

She was spotted by the police in Kasauli on August 7 and was referred to the government-run Sewa Sadan on August 10, he said.