All you need to know about Geeta, the girl India brought back from Pakistan

The story of Geeta, the speech-impaired Indian girl stuck in Pakistan for 14 years came into the limelight after the release of Salman Khan starrer Bajrangi Bhaijaan. Her cause has been spearheaded by Pakistani activist Ansar Burney and her arrival in India today might finally end a quest to find her family, one that has taken over a decade. Here is all that we know about Geeta: [caption id=“attachment_2379706” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Geeta. Image Credit: Official Facebook page of Ansar Burney[/caption] * As she is unable to speak, her real name is unknown. She was named Geeta by Bilquis Edhi, one of the founders of Edhi Foundation, a well-known social welfare organisation in Pakistan. She is also called Guddi by Burney. * The name may not be common for a girl in Pakistan but it was probably given because she is a devout Hindu, according to Ansar Burney. * Geeta has put up colourful posters of Hindu deities, and an earthen lamp (diya) on the table and has a small temple in the shelter that she is staying at. The Pakistani shelter she has been at has been very accommodating and one of the social workers Faisal Edhi even got her an idol of Ganesh from Kathmandu, according to a Indian Express  report. * She also offers namaaz, observes fasts during the Muslim holy month of Ramzan but nobody has tried to convert her to Islam, Edhi has added. * Geeta eats only vegetarian food. *She is 22-years-old now and was just 11 when was spotted by the Pakistan Rangers in Lahore after she strayed across the border abroad the Samjhauta Express train that connects the two nations in 2003. * She is unable to hear or talk but can communicate by writing in Hindi and has written several things in her journal. She has written in her journal: “Maa Baap Bahut Yaad Aate Hain (I really miss my parents), according to NDTV . * The number 193 seems to be an important number associated with her family’s whereabouts as she writes it repeatedly while asked for her address. Earlier, she has pointed out to Telangana and Jharkand on the Indian map suggesting that’s where she may hail from. *Burney has also said that Geeta has mentioned she has seven brothers & four sisters back home. * While the search for Geeta’s family made no headway,  activists persuaded her to begin a new life in Pakistan with a Hindu boy, which she refused and made it clear she will only get married once she returns home, according to India Today. (With agency inputs)