Having earned goodwill of distressed Indians abroad by helping them even at odd hours, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has announced that the complaints of the diaspora will be now handled by her ministerial colleague V K Singh.
"Videshon mein fanse Bhartiyon ke mudde ab @Gen_VKSingh dekhte hain. Unhe @MEAQuery pr sampark karein. Gen VK Singh apki madad karenge (the issues pertaining to Indians stuck abroad are being looked after by Singh. Please contact him. He will help)," Swaraj said in a tweet earlier this week.
Since taking charge in 2014, Swaraj used to respond to almost each and every request made by distressed Indians through twitter and otherwise.
She had made it a point to the Ministry officials as well as Indian missions that problems facing Indians abroad must be addressed sympathetically.
Swaraj's prompt response to the problems of distressed Indians had earned her goodwill.
(Reopens BOM 26)
In December, Fouzia and her husband Nihal Ansari had met Hameed Haroon, CEO of Pakistan's Dawn Media Group, at an interaction organised at the Observer Research Foundation office here and sought his assistance in tracing their son.
Hamid fell in love with a Pashtun girl from Pakistan whom he met on popular social networking site Facebook. They regularly interacted via phone and Internet.
One day, the girl called Hamid and told him her parents wanted to forcibly get her married. Hamid then decided to travel to Pakistan and meet her parents. He went to Afghanistan on a tourist visa and later sneaked illegally into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a border province of Pakistan affected by Taliban insurgency, and subsequently went missing.
Nihal is a retired bank executive, while Fouzia is a lecturer in a Mumbai college.
