Pakistan Charity That Cared for Wandering Indian Girl Declines Modi's Cash

A Pakistani charity has declined a $150,000 donation from the Indian prime minister in recompense for 13 years of caring for a lost deaf-mute Indian girl whose quest to return home captivated the subcontinent, a charity spokesman said on Tuesday. Geeta, a slim young Hindu woman now in her 20s, was a child when she mistakenly wandered across one of the world's most heavily militarized borders to find herself stranded in Pakistan. During her time there, she was cared for by the Edhi...

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