Mumbai

Social media has once again proved itself a boon to humankind as it helped a Mumbai-based woman find her mother who was missing for 20 years in Pakistan.

Yasmin Sheikh, a resident of Mumbai, reveals that her mother had gone to Dubai for working as a cook but she never returned.

"I came to know about my mother after 20 years through a Pakistan-based social media account which had posted a video," Yasmin Sheikh told a news agency.

"She often used to go to Qatar for 2-4 years but this time she had gone with the help of an agent and never came back. We tried looking for her but all the efforts went in vain as we could not even file a complaint as we had no evidence," she added.

“When we used to go to meet the agent to know about my mother's whereabouts, the agent used to say that my mother did not want to meet or talk to us and assured us that she was doing well, however, she in her video, clearly said that the agent had told her not to disclose the truth to anybody," Sheikh said.

"It was only after the video came and reached us that we came to know about her living in Pakistan, else we did not know if she was in Dubai, Saudi or somewhere else" she added.

Disclosing the video that they came across, Banu's sister Shahida said that they came to recognize her after she rightly stated the name of her husband, siblings and the residence.

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Sheikh's sister and daughter feel it a miracle to meet her after so many years and have urged the government to help bring her back as soon as possible.