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New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Friday spoke to Pakistani authorities about the two Indian Sufi clerics who went missing in Karachi while sources in that country told CNN-News18 they may have been detained.
Senior Journalist Pakistan Arsalan Bhatti confirmed CNN-News18 report. "They might have been taken by sensitive agency for interrogation and it is expected that the Pakistan police chief will clear all questions within next 24-hours."
However, Punjab government spokesman, Malik Muhammad Ahmad Khan, ruled out that they were detained in Pakistan.
They visited Lahore on March 13 to offer a "chadar" at Baba Farid's shrine. On March 14, they offered another "chadar" at the Data Darbar Sufi shrine also in Lahore.
The next day when they reached the airport to take a return flight for Karachi, Nazim Ali Nizami was stopped to clear some documentation and Syed Asif Ali Nizami was asked to board the flight.
He reached Karachi airport and asked his relatives to pick him up but he did not come out.
Reacting on the issue, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, tweeted, "Indian nationals Syed Asif Ali Nizami, 80, and his nephew Nazim Ali Nizami went to Pakistan on March 8," she tweeted.
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