India is least bothered about 1971 war prisoners, says kin

Successive Indian governments never bothered about Indian prisoners of war (PoWs), and never responded about their status in Pakistani jails, Nilanjana Ghosh, daughter of Major A K Ghosh, who is suspected to be in a Pakistani jail since the 1971 Indo-Pak War, said here today.
"I have been running from pillar to post to know the status of my father Major A K Ghosh, who was missing in action in the 1971 Indo-Pak war. However, I never got any response from any Indian government," she told reporters here.
She said her family had received a telegram on December 3, 1971, that her father Major A K Ghosh was presumed dead after having gone missing in action in the battle of Fazilka.

"However, it was an article in USA's Time magazine with a photograph of Major A K Ghosh which revealed he is among the 54 Indian PoWs in Pakistani jails," she said.
"Indian government departments including the home department and the external affairs department always passed the buck saying this issue does not come under their jurisdiction," she said.
"I had very high hopes from the new government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. So I wrote to him and his Minister for External Affairs Sushma Swaraj last year, immediately after the formation of the BJP government, but their response was exactly like earlier governments," she said.

Nilanjana said that she was barely eight months old when her father (then aged 25) of the 15th Rajputana Regiment went to war, but never returned.
The Ghosh family's struggle began after they read an article in USA's Time magazine based on which her grandfather and uncle approached authorities in both India as well as Pakistan, but got no response, she said.