Indian Sikh woman Sarabjeet Kaur's plea for help from Pakistan: 'Made a mistake, want to return ...'

Sarabjeet Kaur visited Pakistan with a group of Sikh pilgrims to attend Guru Nanak's birth anniversary celebrations in November 2025. (Photo: X)

• Indian woman Sarabjeet Kaur alleges forced conversion to Islam
• Her planned deportation was stalled by Pakistani authorities without explanation
• She told her husband Karnail that she is not free and is being held against her will

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Sarabjeet Kaur, an Indian citizen who travelled to Pakistan with a Sikh pilgrimage group in November 2025 and married a local, is pleading to return home. An audio clip, allegedly featuring the woman, has gone viral on social media, wherein she is heard speaking to her husband in India while expressing her agony.

The Indian Sikh woman, who was reportedly coerced into converting to Islam, told her husband Karnail Singh that her condition is 'not good' in Pakistan. During the conversation, she even admitted to making a 'mistake' while breaking down several times.

"I am very unhappy here (Pakistan). I want to go back to my children. I have raised them since they were small. Here, I am struggling for each penny," Sarabjeet is heard saying. The woman also claimed she does not even have proper clothes to wear.

The 48-year-old woman, who hails from Amanipur village in Kapurthala district, is heard pleading to return home. The Indian citizen even told her husband Karnail that she is not free and is being held against her will.

Sarabjeet was among the 2,000 Sikh pilgrims who had entered Pakistan via Wagah border from India last year to attend festivities held to mark the 556th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev.

While all other pilgrims returned home a few days after the festivities, Sarabjeet did not. A senior police officer in Lahore later said that she contracted marriage with Nasir Hussain of Sheikhupura district, some 50kms from Lahore, a day after she arrived in Pakistan on November 4.

Sarabjeet was given a Muslim name (Noor) before the nikah ceremony.

According to Karnail Singh, his wife was threatened at gunpoint and forced into a marriage she never consented to. He alleged she was also coerced into converting to Islam. "Everything was done on gunpoint," he told News18.

He even claimed to have every recording of Sarabjeet begging and crying for help. "She keeps asking me to help her, to bring her back ... Her health has suffered gravely during her confinement," Singh added.

Last week, Pakistani authorities had reportedly arranged for Sarabjeet Kaur's deportation to India via the Wagah border. However, the move was abruptly stalled at the eleventh hour, with no official reason provided for the sudden halt.