Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal writes to Union External Affairs Minister regarding punjabi women stranded in Muscat

– Demands to take up the matter with concerned embassies to ensure the safety of these women

Chandigarh, May 12:

          Punjab NRI Affairs Minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal today wrote a letter to Dr. S. Jaishankar, Union External Affairs Minister about the Punjabi women stranded in Muscat, the capital of Oman.  He requested to taking up the matter on humanitarian grounds with the concerned embassies to ensure the safety of these women and necessary steps be taken to bring them back to India.

          “I would like to draw your kind attention about the video that had gone viral and the news in some newspapers about the Punjabi women stranded in Muscat. Most of them went there in search of employment through an agent from Hyderabad as written in the newspaper, Dhaliwal wrote in the letter to Union External Affairs Minister.

          He also wrote that necessary measures may also be undertaken by the External Affairs Ministry to stop such practices by unscrupulous agents so that innocent women may not be duped.