Lovers shun marriages, elope to PoK
Shariq Majeed
Tribune News Service

Rajouri, March 30
Leaving aside their first marriages, a man and woman, considered to be in deep love, have crossed over to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir to marry each other for the second time. They, it is believed, have taken this decision to escape wrath of their relatives.

The story weaves around Muhammad Rasheed and Nageena Bi, who for tying the knot, reportedly escaped to PoK after crossing over the Line of Control (LoC) on the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday.

Sources said Muhammad Rasheed Jat (35) and Nageena Bi (25), who was wife of Muhammad Afzal and residents of Qasba hamlet falling between LoC and fence in Bandi Jajiyaan general area in Poonch, were in love for last three years. The lovers were finding it hard to manage second marriage and were on a look out for some opportunity to flee from their native village.

Nageena, who is mother of five children-- four sons and a daughter--has taken along her two-month-old daughter.

Sources further said Nageena had been meeting Rasheed outside village for the last three years and the lovers were deeply in love with each other.

“However during the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday, the duo managed to flee from the village and crossed over to PoK after crossing the LoC in Poonch sector,” reliable sources said. “The duo is most likely to get married in PoK.”

Meanwhile, the family members of the duo have reportedly lodged a missing report at police station Poonch. Poonch SSP Jagjeet Kumar told The Tribune over the phone from Poonch that they got the information about the missing persons today and that too only through the special branch of Poonch police. “Accordingly, a police party was rushed to the village to ascertain the facts,” the SSP said.