An emotional Hamid Ansari and his mother met external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj in New Delhi on Wednesday, a day after he was released from a Pakistan jail, and thanked her for securing his release. “Mera Bharat mahaan, meri madam mahaan, sab madam ne hi kiya hai (My India is great, my madam is great. You did everything),” Ansari’s mother Fauzia was heard telling the minister in a video of the meeting released by news agency ANI. Swaraj hugged Fauzia as she comforted the sobbing mother and told Ansari he had faced a difficult time. His mother Fauzia, father Nehal and brother met him at the border as he crossed over into India.

Source: Hindustan Times December 19, 2018 07:26 UTC