Slim hope for woman stranded in Saudi Arabia

Rachna Khaira

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, September 15

Despite the Indian Embassy in Riyadh in continuous touch with Paramjit Kaur over phone in the Hail province of Saudi Arabia, it has been unable to track her location for the past one month.

While the embassy officials have claimed helplessness to rescue her without knowing her address, the poor woman too claimed her inability to read out the address prominently written outside her owner’s house in Arabic language.

“Both numbers and the address of the house are written in Arabic which I cannot read or write. Also, I do not have any Internet connection through which I can send photographs of the area,” said Kaur while speaking to The Tribune over phone from Hail today.

Meanwhile, her husband Malkiat Ram sought an appointment to meet Union Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj to get his wife back from the illegal confinement.

“How is it possible that the embassy officials are talking to my wife everyday and are unable to track her location for the past one month? I would urge the MEA to take up the matter with the Saudi embassy in India and also with the Saudi government to help get my wife back,” said Ram.

He has also urged the MEA to help in getting the accused agent in this case arrested by the Punjab Police.