Bajwa seeks info on Indian youths missing in Iraq
Thursday, 20/07/2017
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NEW DELHI: Congress MP Partap Singh Bajwa on Wednesday raised the issue of 39 missing Indian nationals in Iraq in the Rajya Saba and asked the government to provide information about their fate.
Raising the issue during the zero hour, Bajwa said of the kidnapped persons, 40 Indians, of whom 90 per cent were from Punjab, were kidnapped in Iraq by the ISIS in 2014.
The Congress member said one Harjit, who had managed to escape, in a statement had claimed that the remaining 39 youths had been shot dead.
Bajwa said external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj, on the other hand, was informed that these people were alive.
On Sunday, the external affairs ministerj had said 39 Indians abducted in Iraq by the ISIS three years ago may be lodged in a jail in Badush in northwest Mosul in Iraq.
He said that the minister had earlier said on the floor of the House that the youth were alive and in Mosul.
