Pakistani girl Noor Fatima was discharged early on Thursday morning from the Bangalore hospital where she underwent an open heart surgery 17 days back.

Two-and-a-half-year-old Noor left with her parents -- Nadeem Sajjad and Tayyaba Nadeem -- for Delhi by a flight. On Friday, they will ride the Delhi-Lahore bus to return home.

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"Noor is normal and stable," doctors at Narayana Hrudayalaya, where Noor underwent the operation to plug a hole in her heart on July 15, said.

The Pakistani girl, who came to India on July 11 on the Lahore-Delhi bus,� had generated an outpouring of goodwill on both sides of the Indo-Pak border.

Noor's father Nadeem Sajjad said she would be on medication for three months and regular follow-ups would be done with paediatric cardialogist Masood Sadiq in Lahore.

He said Sadiq would be in touch with Dr Rajesh Sharma, the paediatric cardiac surgeon�who performed the surgery on Noor.

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