KARACHI: A mute and deaf Indian girl who has been stuck in Pakistan for more than a decade because she cannot remember where she came from may have finally identified her family, the charity looking after her said Thursday.

The new ray of hope for the woman known only as Geeta, believed to be in her early 20s, came after the Indian High Commission in Islamabad sent her a photograph of a family, whom she said she recognized.

The Edhi Foundation, Pakistan’s largest charity who has been caring for Geeta since she was found 13 years ago, said it was trying to arrange a Skype video call with the family, reported to be based somewhere in India’s Bihar province, to confirm their relationship.

“The Indian high commissioner has lately sent a family photo to us and Geeta has recognized the family,” Anwer Kazmi, a senior official at the foundation, told AFP.

“We hope she will confirm the family identification during the Skype chat through sign language,” Kazmi said. Kazmi said Bilqees Edhi, wife of Edhi Foundation founder Abdul Satter Edhi, hoped to accompany Geeta along with several other members of the Edhi family to India before the end of October.

“We are expecting to get visas for all very soon and hope that on Oct. 26 Geeta would fly back home,” he said

Geeta was 11 or 12 when she was found by police alone and disorientated with no identity papers on a train that had crossed the border from India into the eastern city of Lahore.

She was believed to have strayed into Pakistani territory by mistake, but could not remember or explain exactly where she was from.

Unable to identify her or her family, Pakistani police handed her over to the Edhi Foundation. She now lives in one of the foundation’s shelters in Karachi.

Even the name “Geeta” was given to her by Edhi staff.