An Indian Sikh woman, who went to Pakistan to attend the Baisakhi festival, has reportedly converted to Islam after marrying a Lahore-based Pakistan national, said media reports.

The woman, a widow from Hoshiarpur district, has sought extension of her visa, which will expire on 21 April.

Kiran Bala, daughter of Manohar Lal from Punjab’s Hoshiarpur district, wrote to the Pakistan Foreign Office that her visa should be extended as she married Mohammad Azam during a ceremony held at Jamia Naeemia seminary in Lahore on April 16, The Express Tribune reported.

She has now changed name to Amna Bibi. Notably, Kiran signed her application for extension of the Pakistan visa as Amina, while her name is typed as Amna Bibi.

“Now in the given circumstances, the undersigned could not return back to India and the undersigned have received life threats of assassination, therefore, the undersigned intends to extend her visa,” she wrote in the letter, published by the local media.

Her old father-in-law, Tarsem Singh, alleged on Thursday that his daughter-in-law could have fallen into the hands of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), and might have been forced to convert and remarry there.

Kiran Bala, 31, is a mother of three. She was living with her in-laws at their village house in Garhshankar sub-division of Punjab, around 90 km from Chandigarh. The children are with their aged grandparents. Their father passed away in 2013.

Kiran had reached Pakistan on 12 April with other Sikh pilgrims to attend the festival at Gurdwara Panja Sahib located in Hasan Abdal near Islamabad.

Nearly 1,700 Indian pilgrims had gone to Pakistan to visit Sikh shrines, including Panja Sahib Gurdwara near Lahore, and Nankana Sahib, the birthplace of Sikhism founder Guru Nanak Dev, on the occasion of Baisakhi on April 13.

The ongoing Baisakhi festival is the fresh subject of controversy between Pakistan and India.

It has already created bitterness after India accused Pakistan of using it to incite Indian pilgrims on the issue of ‘Khalistan’, which was rejected by Islamabad.

(With inputs from agencies)