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‘Mistake was mine,’ Mumbai engineer Hamid Ansari on Pakistan ordeal

Released Indian prisoner Hamid Ansari (C) is greeted by his mother Fauzia Ansari (6L), father Nehal Ansari (5R) and brother Dr Khalid Ansari (6R) as he arrives at the India Pakistan Wagah border on December 18, 2018. (NARINDER NANU/AFP/Getty Images)

By: Keerthi Mohan

Mumbai techie Hamid Nehal Ansari crossed the Attari-Wagah border into India on Tuesday and reunited with his family after spending six long years in a jail in Pakistan. Ansari was arrested in 2012 and charged with espionage and forgery after he crossed to Pakistan to save a social media friend from forced marriage. According to the Indian Express, he was physically tortured by Pakistan’s intelligence agencies and that his left eye was damaged. Ansari was left in solitary confinement initially after his arrest. Ansari does not blame anybody for his ordeal because the fault was his own. “The mistake was mine.…

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