Two prominent Indian Sufi clerics who went missing while visiting Pakistan are safe and were expected to return to Delhi on Sunday, Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Twitter.
"I just spoke to Syed Nazim Ali Nizami in Karachi. He told me that they are safe and will be back in Delhi tomorrow," Swaraj tweeted on Saturday night.
Nizami, 80, is the head priest of the famous Sufi shrine of Nizamuddin Auliya in the Indian capital.
Nizami and his nephew Nazim Ali Nizami, 66, had travelled to Pakistan on March 8 to visit the Data Darbar Sufi shrine and visit relatives.
They failed to catch their flight back from Lahore to Karachi on Wednesday after visiting the shrine, according to relatives quoted by Indian media.
Nazim was stopped at Lahore airport on grounds of incomplete travel papers and went missing thereafter, NDTV news channel had reported.
Asif went missing after arriving at Karachi airport.
Swaraj then took up the matter with the government of Pakistan. She did not give details on Sunday on why the priests had failed to catch their flight on Wednesday or where they had been for the past three days.
There is a frequent exchange between the priests of Data Darbar an Hazrat Nizamuddin Sufi shrines in Pakistan and India.
The Sufi clerics travelled to Pakistan on March 8.
