Excelsior Correspondent
SAMBA, July 4: A Samba youth reunited with his family after undergoing a horrible experience in war ravaged Iraq for 15 days.
Pawan Kumar of village Madwal in Samba, who had been stuck in Iraq for 15 days, was reunited with his family in his native village near here today. He called up his family in the morning after boarding a bus from New Delhi to Samba.
Pawan reached New Delhi yesterday morning with the efforts of some officials of management of his company, which sent some Indian workers back. His reunion with his family brought back smiles on the faces of his wife Rajni, father, Sham Lal, mother, Bimla Devi and other members.
“Seeing my daughter for the first time was almost a dreamlike for me”, said Pawan. “When I left for Iraq on May 8, my wife was seven months pregnant”, he added.
Pawan had earlier spent two years in Iraq. After getting married and spending a year in Samba, he has left for Iraq two months ago. Recounting his horrific stay in Iraq, Pawan said, “the management did not fulfill its promise of paying our dues and only provided return tickets to send us back. Even or hopes of making a fast buck in Iraq have been dashed”, Kumar added.
He said there are 250 more workers from India stranded in the company in which he was working and alleged that that little help is pouring in from the Indian Embassy in Iraq to rescue them.
He alleged that the workers had not been paid money by the company which also disowned its staff, leaving them to die in the most unsafe environs in an alien country.
Narrating his horrible tale Kumar said “with no money and food stocks getting exhausted, we had given up all hopes of returning home but God has been kind and we are back with our loved ones”. The Company officers and other workers had abandoned everything and left for their homeland, leaving 250 workers in the lurch.
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