Jalandhar: Confusion over the arrival of the bodies of two Indians who are among the 39 Indians killed in Iraq led to an agonising wait for their grieving families at the Amritsar airport.
On Tuesday after Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj informed parliament that 39 Indians kidnapped by the terror group ISIS in Mosul in 2014 had been killed, the deputy commissioner of Nawanshahr, the home district of two of the dead Indian workers, issued a circular informing that the mortal remains of the two would reach Amritsar on Wednesday.
After the Nawanshahr district administration put out the information, a police team escorted relatives of Parvinder Kumar and Jasbir Singh to Amritsar airport, a journey of about 150 kilometres. But after a wait of over two hours at the airport, they returned disappointed.
"We are extremely poor people; we have no choice but to go to such dangerous places to earn a living," said another relative.
"No policy can be framed to check the flow of labour from Punjab to Iraq. People who have nothing to eat cannot even be advised to not go to such countries and many are adopting illegal means to do that," said Punjab Finance Minister Manpreet Badal.
On Tuesday after Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj informed parliament that 39 Indians kidnapped by the terror group ISIS in Mosul in 2014 had been killed, the deputy commissioner of Nawanshahr, the home district of two of the dead Indian workers, issued a circular informing that the mortal remains of the two would reach Amritsar on Wednesday.
After the Nawanshahr district administration put out the information, a police team escorted relatives of Parvinder Kumar and Jasbir Singh to Amritsar airport, a journey of about 150 kilometres. But after a wait of over two hours at the airport, they returned disappointed.
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"We are extremely poor people; we have no choice but to go to such dangerous places to earn a living," said another relative.
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"No policy can be framed to check the flow of labour from Punjab to Iraq. People who have nothing to eat cannot even be advised to not go to such countries and many are adopting illegal means to do that," said Punjab Finance Minister Manpreet Badal.
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