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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We received and posted Hamida’s case on social media 10th of February 2025 Hamida was abducted and sold sixty years ago. Here is what she remembers. I am originally from Mardan, a city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. My father’s name was Noor Khan and mother’s name was Naz Bibi. My full brother’s name is Yar Muhammad, and my elder brother from my stepmother’s
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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
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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