NRIs call up relatives, ask them to come abroad

Following reports on Operation Sindoor, residents in this part of Malwa region have started receiving calls from their friends and relatives settled in foreign countries, seeking to reconnect and ensure their (residents’) well-being.

NRI children and anxious foreign nationals insisted that their parents and kin should come abroad on a brief visitor’s visa. There were still others who asked locals to invite relatives settled in border areas to this region till the fear of war looms large.

Venu Gopal Sharma, a resident of local Dehliz Road, said he had received repeated calls from his sister’s family settled in Melbourne, asking him to plan a visit to her place.

“My sister Jasmine and her husband Uttam were so panicked that they insisted that I should get my daughter’s passport prepared immediately so that they could apply for the visitor’s visa of the family without delay,” said Sharma.

Ram Nath Prashar of Barundi village said his son, settled in Canada, insisted on rescheduling of his and his wife’s air ticket and preponing their proposed visit there so that the family gets together before things worsen as being apprehended.

Sandhya Maudgil of Green Avenue said she had received a call from her Norwegian daughter Meenu shortly after she learnt about ‘Operation Sindoor’ and retaliation by Pakistan in the midnight, asking for her well-being.

“Though I was supposed to fly to Norway after a couple of days, my daughter insisted that I should leave the town immediately and stay in Delhi till the scheduled time of my flight,” said Maudgil.

Deepak Sharda of Lohgarh village claimed to have received calls from his relatives settled in New Zealand and Canada, asking him to bring families of his brother Sham Lal from Amritsar to Lohgarh.

Ludhiana