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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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.
The Bangladeshi govt or any NGO is requested to help this poor woman on humitarian grounds.
@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).
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.
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?