Via PTI
KARACHI: An Indian girl, who went lacking twenty years in the past after a recruitment agent in Mumbai promised her a role 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 govt to lend a hand her reunite together with her circle of relatives.
Waliullah Maroof, who’s an imam of a mosque in Karachi, mentioned the Indian Prime Fee officers in Islamabad have contacted him and sought after to fulfill Hamidi Begum to ship her again to Mumbai.
“She is determined to move house and reunite together with her circle of relatives as she now lives in Karachi together with her stepson,” Maroof instructed PTI.
Hamidi mentioned in an emotional voice on name that she had no longer observed her youngsters and circle of relatives for twenty years and sought after to hug them.
“I used to be ready to talk to my daughter and granddaughter on video name however I wish to meet them in particular person,” she mentioned.
Hamidi, who labored as a prepare dinner in Qatar, was once promised a role in Dubai in 2002 by way of a recruitment agent in Mumbai. The agent duped her and trafficked her to Karachi.
From Karachi, she was once taken to Hyderabad in Pakistan’s Sindh province the place she was once locked up for 3 months. After her free up, she married a Pakistani widower with a son.
In step with Maroof, the Indian girl’s Pakistani husband passed on to the great beyond 3 years in the past.
“He had moved into the neighbourhood in Karachi from Hyderabad 14 years in the past. I knew there was once an issue with this woman as a result of she all the time appeared fearful. When she instructed me her tale, I determined to lend a hand her out by way of posting her video and tale on YouTube from the place happily the Indian journalist named Khalfan Shaikh noticed it and contacted me,” he mentioned.
Maroof has used his social media accounts to additionally lend a hand ladies from Bangladesh – who were trafficked into Pakistan – to find their households.
He mentioned the ones ladies, like Hamidi, are illiterate and financially deficient and it turns into tough for them to search out paintings in Pakistan. “They only settle for their destiny and reside their lives however Hamidi sought after to reunite together with her circle of relatives. She additionally remembered her Mumbai deal with and the title of her youngsters and once we organized the video name together with her daughter Yasmin Sheikh it was once an overly emotional second for all folks”, Maroof mentioned.
Hamidi ceaselessly referred to as her circle of relatives whilst dwelling in another country in Qatar and Riyadh.
After 2002, when the agent tricked her after she paid her Rs 20,000, she misplaced touch with members of the family as she was once locked up in a room and had no cash.
Her daughter Yasmin mentioned that her mom would name them ceaselessly when she lived in another country.
The circle of relatives waited for months for a telephone name after Hamidi left house in 2002 and after all approached the agent who had organised the shuttle.
“She instructed us that our mom was once smartly and did not wish to talk with us. We stored returning to invite questions on our mom, after which she [the agent] unexpectedly vanished,” Yasmin mentioned.
KARACHI: An Indian girl, who went lacking twenty years in the past after a recruitment agent in Mumbai promised her a role 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 govt to lend a hand her reunite together with her circle of relatives.
Waliullah Maroof, who’s an imam of a mosque in Karachi, mentioned the Indian Prime Fee officers in Islamabad have contacted him and sought after to fulfill Hamidi Begum to ship her again to Mumbai.
“She is determined to move house and reunite together with her circle of relatives as she now lives in Karachi together with her stepson,” Maroof instructed PTI.
Hamidi mentioned in an emotional voice on name that she had no longer observed her youngsters and circle of relatives for twenty years and sought after to hug them.
“I used to be ready to talk to my daughter and granddaughter on video name however I wish to meet them in particular person,” she mentioned.
Hamidi, who labored as a prepare dinner in Qatar, was once promised a role in Dubai in 2002 by way of a recruitment agent in Mumbai. The agent duped her and trafficked her to Karachi.
From Karachi, she was once taken to Hyderabad in Pakistan’s Sindh province the place she was once locked up for 3 months. After her free up, she married a Pakistani widower with a son.
In step with Maroof, the Indian girl’s Pakistani husband passed on to the great beyond 3 years in the past.
“He had moved into the neighbourhood in Karachi from Hyderabad 14 years in the past. I knew there was once an issue with this woman as a result of she all the time appeared fearful. When she instructed me her tale, I determined to lend a hand her out by way of posting her video and tale on YouTube from the place happily the Indian journalist named Khalfan Shaikh noticed it and contacted me,” he mentioned.
Maroof has used his social media accounts to additionally lend a hand ladies from Bangladesh – who were trafficked into Pakistan – to find their households.
He mentioned the ones ladies, like Hamidi, are illiterate and financially deficient and it turns into tough for them to search out paintings in Pakistan. “They only settle for their destiny and reside their lives however Hamidi sought after to reunite together with her circle of relatives. She additionally remembered her Mumbai deal with and the title of her youngsters and once we organized the video name together with her daughter Yasmin Sheikh it was once an overly emotional second for all folks”, Maroof mentioned.
Hamidi ceaselessly referred to as her circle of relatives whilst dwelling in another country in Qatar and Riyadh.
After 2002, when the agent tricked her after she paid her Rs 20,000, she misplaced touch with members of the family as she was once locked up in a room and had no cash.
Her daughter Yasmin mentioned that her mom would name them ceaselessly when she lived in another country.
The circle of relatives waited for months for a telephone name after Hamidi left house in 2002 and after all approached the agent who had organised the shuttle.
“She instructed us that our mom was once smartly and did not wish to talk with us. We stored returning to invite questions on our mom, after which she [the agent] unexpectedly vanished,” Yasmin mentioned.