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Qad Bano of India is found after 40 years in Pakistan

Qad Bano was abducted as a child from India and trafficked to Pakistan by human smugglers. She now lives in Muzzaffargarh, Pakistan. We began search for her family on 28th of July. Alhamdulillah Within ten hours, by the same evening, a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from Barpeta, Assam, India, called us. A kind […]

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Reunited after 40 years, Shahida’s story

Shahida is from Santosh Nagar, India. She was married off to her husband in Karachi, Pakistan. She never met her loved ones back in India. Hear her story in her own words We found her family after a couple of days. We contacted Shahida’s mother and asked her to be prepared for the video call

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Hamida Bano, 24 Years Of Separation Ends

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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After 39 Years Apart, Maryam Reunites with Her Brothers in India — Bound by Time and Hope

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

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