Indian woman in Pakistan: 4 families claim 'Geeta is ours'

The mystery over the parentage of a hearing-and-speech impaired Indian woman stranded in Pakistan grew more intriguing on Saturday after foreign minister Sushma Swaraj tweeted that a Bihar family said Geeta was their daughter, bringing the number of such claims up to four. A family each from Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand and Punjab have said this week the woman who spent 15 years in Pakistan was their long-lost family member, following instructions from Swaraj to the Indian envoy in the neighbouring country to unite Geeta with her family. Swaraj has asked the chief ministers of the respective states to verify the families' claims and tweeted a bunch of particular information that Geeta herself reportedly provided the authorities with her pictures and drawings.   HT