Indian citizen Anju, who converted to Islam and married her Pakistani lover in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Upper Dir, has got her visa extended by one year after the interior ministry accepted her request, said her Pakistani husband Nasrullah on Tuesday.

“I have fulfilled all requirements and hopefully one-year visa extension has been received,” he said in an interview with a journalist in Islamabad. “There has been full cooperation with us and all institutions are cooperating with us and supporting us.”

Nasrallah later announced that the visa request had been granted.

Anju, who is now named Fatima after her conversion to Islam, arrived in Pakistan last month. Her story is similar to Seema, a Pakistani woman who went to India. Both of them met their lovers on social media.

She was granted a two-month visa extension earlier this month. Her original one-month visa was set to expire on August 20.

Anju, 35, from New Delhi and Nasrullah, 29, of Upper Dir, became friends on Facebook around four years ago. The friendship turned into love. She came all the way from the Indian capital to KP’s mountainous region apparently for him on July 21, 2023, via Wagah Border.

Nasrullah claimed that he has a copy of the letter and the process takes 10 days. When the reporter asked about the deadline, he replied in the affirmative that the letter would be received in 10 days.

Anju left her husband and two children in Rajasthan’s Alwar district to unite with her Pakistani lover Nasrullah in the Upper Dir district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. They had met online.

After her conversion and marriage — which the couple denied while speaking to Indian news outlets but which was confirmed by local officials – Anju has received residential plots and money in gifts from Pakistani businessmen.