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“Now every jatha will be seen with suspicion. People will be saying who might convert or marry someone while visiting another country, it has to be nipped in the bud and this woman should be sent back.”Radesh said they were surprised why PSGPC or SGPC were silent on the issue and should clear their stand. On April 16, she went to Lahore-based Dar-ul-Ulaoom Naeemia and embraced Islam and was christened Amna Bibi.She married Muhammad Azam and the same day Amna wrote a letter to Pakistan’s ministry of interior seeking to extend her visa, alleging life threats back home. If she is provided a safe haven in Pakistan, it will encourage others to do the same, especially in the era of internet where connectivity makes borders of countries immaterial.”Joginder Singh, a member of Sikh Sangat, Pakistan, said religious groups, be it of Sikhs, Hindus or Muslims, shouldn’t be allowed to come under suspicion with personal act of a woman. Kiran is a widow and has left her three children including a girl back in India.Radesh said embracing another religion or having a love affair with a person of another country was her personal issue, but she had used the Sikh jatha as a medium to arrive in Pakistan which was highly objectionable to them.Rights activist Mohmmad Wasim said, “We don’t mind her embracing Islam and marrying a Lahore man, but now she should go back to India and come back on relevant visa if she wished..