22-year-old Geeta has indicated that she longs to return to her family in India.
Memories of home are hazy for 22-year-old Geeta, who has been living in a shelter in Karachi since she accidentally crossed over to Pakistan in 2003. But in a four-hour session on Thursday, the hearing and speech impaired woman communicated more about her family than she ever has in 13 years.
Will it be enough to help authorities on both sides of the border trace her home in India?
"We have now ascertained her names of her family members and having understood that her home, house number 193 is located near rice fields and a maternity home," said Raees of the Karachi School for Deaf, one of the two people who spoke to Geeta.
The team says Geeta has named at least six family members. The names she communicated, with gestures and scribbles, sound like Nahaish, Shoshan, Vitendar, Nisha, Marga and Alouve. The name of her village is on the lines of Voshavdevo.
Geeta also conveyed that her home was near a pond, and repeatedly gestured throwing something, which suggested that she crossed over into Pakistan during some sort of confrontation.
Two families have claimed that Geeta could be their lost daughter.
NDTV traced the family in Jharkhand's naxal affected Girdih district, who claim that Geeta could be their daughter who had disappeared more than ten years ago, she may have travelled on a train that passes through the area and travels close to the Pakistan border in Punjab.
The other family is from Amritsar in Punjab that begs at the railway station, they claim that the girl could be their long lost daughter 'Guddi'.
Heartbreakingly though, for all concerned, Geeta has not recognised either family. But the young girl's determination to trace her family against all odds has no one giving up hope as of now. She is being looked after by a philanthropist organisation, Edhi Foundation.
Attention was again drawn to Geeta's case after Bollywood superstar Salman Khan's blockbuster film, "Bajrangi Bhaijan", in which he undertakes a journey from India to escort a six-year-old mute Pakistani girl back to her village.