My name is Hamida Banu Muhammad Hanif Shaikh. Twenty four years ago, I was trafficked to Pakistan from Mumbai, India in the name of a job in Dubai (I used to work in the gulf in those days and had been to Arab countries before). I escaped my traffickers in Hyberabad (Pakistan) and reached Karachi. […]
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I received a call. Here is how it went. This was the information we got from the call. The girl’s name is Rehana Rana.Her father’s name is Ashraf Mohammad Rana (possibly Mohammad Ashraf Rana, as she wrote it as Ashraf Mohammad Rana).Her grandmother’s name (paternal) was Maryam.He had two brothers and one sister — one brother has passed away. The younger brother’s
Maryam Abbasi from Hyderabad, India was married to Saleh Mohammad Naaji, in 1983, who was a Yemeni. They initially settled in Qatar where the husband used to drive a taxi. She used to send letters and photographs from Qatar to her family in India. After a couple of years they moved to Yemen and soon
Mr. Abdul Kabir Choudhry contacted us from Patoki, Punjab. In search of a job, he crossed into India from Bangladesh 35 years ago and then into Pakistan. He lost his identity papers. Back home in Khunlna, Bangladesh, he has a wife, children and siblings. This is the story of his 35 years of solitude, turning
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When a grandson in Bangladesh looking for his grandmother found her after 53 years All we had was a message from a young man in Bangladesh We found Chaman Ara in Karachi How did she fare all these years We lost no time in connecting her to her daughters. After more than half a century
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Her name is Zahida.I’ve known Zahida since my early childhood, growing up in the neighborhood of Manghopir, Karachi. She worked in various homes around the area, including ours. We used to call her “Nani” – grandmother – as a term of affection.I vividly remember the day my mother quietly shared something with me that shook
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