Less than a week after Indian woman Anju arrived in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Upper Dir district to marry her Pakistani lover, a Chinese woman reached the neighbouring district of Lower Dir to unite with her teenage male friend.

Gao Fang, 20, has reportedly converted to Islam and plans to marry Javed, 18.

Aaj News has learnt that Fang arrived in the Samar Bagh area of Lower Dir on a tourist visa which is valid for three months.

Javed is originally from Bajaur district, located in the tribal region of KP, but has been living at his uncle’s home in Lower Dir.

Lower Dir District Police Officer Ziauddin confirmed the development saying that the police had provided security to the Chinese woman and restricted her movement due to security concerns.

The DPO said Javed and Fang met on the social media app Snapchat and were in contact for three years.

Fang entered Pakistan through the Sust border crossing between Pakistan and China. She then traveled through the Gilgit-Baltistan region before entering the KP province.

Sources told Aaj News that Fang has converted to Islam and taken up Kiswa as her Islamic name.

She intends to marry Javed but the reports about their nikah could not be confirmed. Javed also plans to visit China in the near future.

Family sources told Aaj News that Fang arrived in Lower Dir “three days ago” (on Sunday) two days after Indian national Anju entered the region on Friday.

On Tuesday, Anju converted to Islam and married her Pakistani lover Nasrullah.

However, soon after the news was reported and copies of the nikahnama and an affidavit submitted by Anju to the court began to circulate online, the couple denied that they had tied the knot or Anju had converted to Islam.

Anju’s father G Parsad reacted sharply to the development and disowned her, saying ‘she is dead to us.’

Fang is the third woman to cross Pakistan’s border with neighbouring countries in recent weeks. In May, Seema Haider from Karachi traveled to India to join her Indian lover Sachin Meena.

Seema announced that she had converted to Hinduism and did not want to go back.