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Missing India woman found in Pakistan returns home after 22 years

2024-12-18 19:00:01
Hamida Banu at her Karachi residence in 2022

An Indian woman who says she was trafficked to Pakistan more than two decades ago has finally returned home - 18 months after her grandson spotted her in a YouTube video.

Hamida Banu said she had spent the last 22 years "as a living corpse", trapped in the neighbouring country and unable to contact her family.

Ms Banu was tricked into going to Pakistan after accepting what was supposed to be a job in Dubai back in 2002.

Both India and Pakistan - which share a frosty bilateral relationship - conducted extensive checks on her identity before her Indian nationality was confirmed in October.

Ms Banu said she was happy to be back with her children and siblings