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Missing for 42 years: Aged mother waits for son’s return
Son has been in a Bangladeshi jail for unknown reasons.
Bibi Hawwa and her grandson talking to media about Abdul Jameel’s imprisonment in Bangladesh. PHOTO: EXPRESS
BUTKHELA:
Bibi Hawwa, a woman reportedly 130 years old, is desperately waiting for her son’s release from Bangladesh.
A resident of Plai Sher Khana, a far-flung area of Malakand Agency, the aged and financially burdened mother has been waiting in anticipation for her son since the last 42 years. Her son, Abdul Jamil, went to Bangladesh, then known as East Pakistan, to work as a labourer along with his cousin Ghulam Sarwar.
However, following the separation of the state in 1971, Jamil lost all contact with his family. Bibi Hawwa was later informed that her son was languishing in a jail for unknown reasons. Abdul Jamil’s son, Gul Rehman told the media that his aged grandmother really wants to see her son before she breathes her last.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 21st, 2012.
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I really really hope some one helps her out. Isn’t there anyway or NGOs contact Bangladeshis authorities?
On sidenote, She being 130 years means she is oldest person surviving on earth?
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These incidents are the one which show how actively our human rights activists are working. This is just one heart rendering story! who knows how many people out there are being tortured in foreign jails for no reason at all! I pray that the mother’s wish is fulfilled.
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@Zeta
Zeta NGOs are far flung organizations currently working on Gender,Women Rights, and what not, Why should they listen to a mother who lost her son. They only listen to funding in US Dollars (bell of their life).
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The Bangladeshi govt or any NGO is requested to help this poor woman on humitarian grounds.
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Our rights bodies or religious buddies fight only when our terrorists are put in US jails as they are our assets. We never remember the real patriots who sacrificed their lives for this cruel and undeserving country.
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Politics is a politician’s business & a job i.e, his/her source of living.
The way democracy is set-up a normal person will only be motivated to do things for public if s/he is acheiving any personal goals by it__ in most cases in “more votes gained”, wealth, power or prestige if accuired or not.
Now only if enough people show that they will not vote for him/her or threaten to take his power or wealth away only then he will be motivated to work for a small mater like this.
So Now Start a campaign, get people together, write to the public leader, put him in paper, on TV, knock at his door everyday, he sure will listen___according to the Democratic Laws of the Nature. GoodLuckRecommend