John Abraham starrer, The Diplomat became a commercial success at the box office and grossed Rs. 53 crore worldwide. The movie is based on the true story of India’s Uzma Ahmed, who was clustered in Pakistan’s Buner by her husband, Tahir Ali, who tricked her into getting married to him and kept her there while torturing her day in and day out.
The real story of Uzma was featured in the film, The Diplomat, which is currently streaming on OTT giant, Netflix. Amid this, let’s have a look at India’s daughter, Uzma Ahmed’s real-life story, and how the diplomat, J.P. Singh took all kinds of risks to release her from Pakistan and escort her to her family in India, along with the help of his colleagues and late external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj.
How Uzma Ahmed fell in love with a Pakistani man and reached the country only to find out he was married
Uzma Ahmed, a young woman from Delhi, met a Pakistani man named Tahir Ali in Malaysia. Uzma once shared with India Today that she’s an orphan. Well, she has a daughter from her first marriage, who was suffering from Thalassemia. Upon meeting Tahir, she fell in love, and he did too, well, at least he might have pretended. The duo, according to Tahir, was in a relationship for nine months, and they decided to get married. Well, later he invited Uzma to Pakistan and said that he wanted to take care of her daughter from her first marriage. Uzma, who reportedly had a visa to travel to Pakistan, reached the neighbouring country in May 2017.