New Delhi, May 8: The Delhi woman whose Pakistani husband yesterday accused the Indian high commission in that country of abducting his wife told a magistrate in Islamabad today she was forced into marriage and wanted to return to India.

Uzma Ahmed told the magistrate that Tahir, her husband, duped her into visiting him in Pakistan, sexually assaulted her and then forced her to marry him at gunpoint.

She is currently at the Indian high commission in Islamabad. "If I go with Tahir to his village, only my dead body will come back," Uzma wrote in her statement submitted to the magistrate. "I do not want to go outside the high commission until I return to my home in Delhi."

Tahir had yesterday filed a police complaint against the Indian mission, accusing it of abducting his wife. He claimed the couple had visited the high commission to apply for visas to visit India and had been called into a section one by one. However, he claimed, his wife never returned.

While Tahir is a Pakistani national, Uzma is Indian - according to officials from both countries - and so would not need an Indian visa to travel to India.

Pakistan's foreign office had late on Sunday night confirmed that the Indian high commission had informed it about Uzma's allegations. The Indian foreign ministry said yesterday it was regularly updating Uzma's family in Delhi.

Today, Uzma's brother met foreign minister Sushma Swaraj here and "requested the government's help to rescue his sister at the earliest", foreign ministry spokesperson Gopal Baglay said.

Uzma had registered her statement with the magistrate in Islamabad "as per local legal requirement", said Baglay. "In her statement, she said she was sedated, assaulted, tortured mentally and physically," Baglay said.

According to Uzma's statement, she met Tahir in Malaysia where they were both working. After they returned to their respective countries, Tahir asked Uzma to visit him in Pakistan. Uzma applied - and secured - a Pakistani visa from that country's mission here, and crossed over from the land port of Wagah.

Tahir met her at the crossing and drove her to a mountainous village - but sedated her in the car, she has claimed.

"That night, Tahir sexually assaulted and tortured me and threatened to kill me if I did not sign the nikah nama (the) next day," Uzma's complaint says. "He show(ed) me a gun and threatened me."