After six long years in jail in Pakistan, Mumbaikar Hamid Nihal Ansari was repatriated back to India on Tuesday. He had a tearful reunion with his parents and brother at the Wagah border; he had been in Pakistan for 2,232 days.

Don't have words to express... : Hamid Nihal Ansari on return to India after 6 years in jail in Pak

Indian national Hamid Nihal Ansari, who has been in jail in Pakistan for the last six years, crossed back over into India Tuesday evening a little before 6 pm. He was met by his parents and brother — they had travelled from Mumbai — at the Wagah border near Amritsar.

Hamid Nihal Ansari, in jail in Pakistan for 6 years, returns to India

A top court in Pakistan has given a one-month deadline to the federal government to complete formalities to deport Indian prisoner Hamid Nehal Ansari, whose three-year jail term will end on December 15.

Pakistan to release Indian national Hamid Nehal Ansari one month after his jail term ends