The Sarbjeet Kaur Case: How Indian Pilgrims Are Trapped In Pakistan’s New Recruitment Model

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The mysterious disappearance of Indian Sikh woman Sarbjeet Kaur during a religious visit to Pakistan has triggered alarm bells within India’s security establishment, CNN-News18 has learnt. Intelligence agencies have described it as part of a larger, systematic pattern of “pilgrim recruitment" by Pakistan’s intelligence network—a covert strategy that uses marriage and forced religious conversion as tools of manipulation, relocation, and intelligence gathering.

Sources said Kaur, who was part of a Sikh jatha visiting Pakistan for Gurupurab celebrations, failed to return with the group. Preliminary information shared with Indian authorities suggests that she has married a Pakistani man in Lahore, and a Nikahnama accessed by CNN-News18 confirms that she has converted