India completing all formalities to bring deaf and dumb woman

Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said Saturday that India is completing all the necessary formalities to bring back an Indian woman stuck in Karachi.

"We are completing the necessary formalities to bring Gita back to India," the minister tweeted.

The deaf and dumb woman had accidentally strayed across the border to Pakistan in 2003 when she was just 11 years old.

She was subsequently handed over to a non-government organization, the Edhi Foundation in Karachi, where she has been staying for the past 15 years.

Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan T.C.A. Raghavan has already met Gita at the Edhi Foundation in Karachi and initiated the formalities to bring her back.

Her case came to light following a recent Bollywood movie apparently based on her story.