Indian girl lacking for 20 years traced to Pakistan

An Indian girl, who went lacking 20 years in the past after a recruitment agent in Mumbai promised her a job in Dubai however trafficked her to Pakistan, has been discovered with the assistance of a video on social media and is interesting to the Indian authorities to assist her reunite together with her household.

Waliullah Maroof, who’s an imam of a mosque in Karachi, mentioned the Indian High Commission officers in Islamabad have contacted him and wished to fulfill Hamidi Begum to ship her again to Mumbai.

“She is desperate to go home and reunite with her family as she now lives in Karachi with her stepson,” Maroof informed PTI.

Hamidi mentioned in an emotional voice on name that she had not seen her youngsters and household for 20 years and wished to hug them.

“I was able to speak to my daughter and granddaughter on video call but I want to meet them in person,” she mentioned.

Hamidi, who labored as a prepare dinner in Qatar, was promised a job in Dubai in 2002 by a recruitment agent in Mumbai. The agent duped her and trafficked her to Karachi.

From Karachi, she was taken to Hyderabad in Pakistan’s Sindh province the place she was locked up for 3 months. After her launch, she married a Pakistani widower with a son.

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According to Maroof, the Indian girl’s Pakistani husband handed away three years in the past. He had moved into the neighbourhood in Karachi from Hyderabad 14 years in the past.

“I knew there was a problem with this lady because she always looked worried. When she told me her story, I decided to help her out by posting her video and story on YouTube from where luckily the Indian journalist named Khalfan Shaikh saw it and contacted me,” he mentioned.

Maroof has used his social media accounts to additionally assist girls from Bangladesh who had been trafficked into Pakistan discover their households.

He mentioned these girls, like Hamidi, are illiterate and financially poor and it turns into troublesome for them to seek out work in Pakistan.

“They just accept their fate and live their lives but Hamidi wanted to reunite with her family. She also remembered her Mumbai address and the name of her children and when we arranged the video call with her daughter Yasmin Sheikh it was a very emotional moment for all of us,” Maroof mentioned.

Hamidi often referred to as her household whereas dwelling overseas in Qatar and Riyadh. After 2002, when the agent tricked her after she paid her Rs 20,000, she misplaced contact with members of the family as she was locked up in a room and had no cash.

Her daughter Yasmin mentioned that her mom would name them often when she lived overseas. The household waited for months for a telephone name after Hamidi left dwelling in 2002 and at last approached the agent who had organised the journey.

“She told us that our mother was well and didn’t want to speak with us. We kept returning to ask questions about our mother, and then she [the agent] suddenly vanished,” Yasmin mentioned.

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