The minister should have called us before exploding the bomb on us,” said an aggrieved Swaran Singh.
Rachna Khaira
Tribune News Service
Kamaljit, Bathakalan
Jalandhar, March 20 Majority of the families of the 31 Punjabi men who went missing in the Mosul city of Iraq were found ignorant of the fate of their kin who were massacred by the ISIS militants in 2014.
While the statement made by Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj is yet to reach these families living in remote villages, Swaran Singh, the brother of one of the 39 Indians killed in Iraq from Sangowal village in Amritsar, expressed anguish over the way the announcement was made by the minister.“This is nothing less than a brutality to the families who were waiting for the safe return of their boys.
The minister should have called us before exploding the bomb on us,” said an aggrieved Swaran Singh.
Surjit Mainka ,Churuwalli
Refusing to accept her claim that all the 39 Indians who were kidnapped by the ISIS were killed, Swaran Singh said that the government earlier trusted on unreliable sources and maintained that they were safe and were held hostage at an undisclosed place.
Later, through another unreliable source, it stated that they were held hostage in a mosque, but that again was proved wrong.“It is very much possible that the claim made by them now is also wrong,” said Singh that the families may file a case against the Union Government for keeping them in dark and a re-investigation of the claim made by Swaraj about the death of their kin in Iraq.
Kanwaljit Kaur, mother of 25-year-old Dharmendra Kumar of Batala village in Gurdaspur, said, “I have not lost hope. I have shortlisted few girls for him and is anxiously waiting to see him as a bridegroom.”As her voice was filled with laughter and hope, this correspondent didn’t have the heart to tell her the truth.Manjit Kaur, wife of the deceased Punjabi youth Davinder Singh from Roorka Kalan village, said: “Umeed jiundi e ajje tak…aaun taan sahi…vekhyo kidda welcome karna mein…(Hope is still alive. Let him come and see how we have planned his welcome).” Little did she know that she would not see her husband again.
Kulvinder Khnake Bhogpur
It was last year in July that the Ministry of External Affairs had sought DNA testing of the 39 Indian families.The process was initiated after Iraqi authorities informed India about mass graves found in and around Mosul.The process was completed in December last year following which Swaraj on Tuesday informed the Rajya Sabha that all 39 Indians kidnapped by ISIS in Iraq’s Mosul were found dead.
Gobind Murar, Kapurthala
SR.NO | NAME | FATHER NAME | R/O | MOBILE NO. | PASSPORT NO. |
1 | MANJINDER SINGH | HARDEEP SINGH | BHOEWAL(AMRITSAR) | 9463797011 | H 2846481 |
2 | JATINDER SINGH | BALKAR SINGH | SIALKA(AMRITSAR) | 8284817761 | J 6391361 |
3 | HARSIMARANJIT SINGH | TARSEM SINGH | BABOWAL(AMRITSAR) | 9501140546 | K 4861297 |
4 | SONU | SHIRA | CHWINDA DEVI(AMRITSAR) | 9855686747 | H 3162097 |
5 | GURCHARAN SINGH | SARDARA SINGH | JALAL USMAN(AMRITSAR) | 9876508420 | H 0316112 |
6 | KAWALJIT SINGH | HARBHAJAN SINGH | ROOPAWALI P.O -BHOLEKE BATALA(GURDASPUR) | 9814201138 | K 3781751 |
7 | NISHAN SINGH | GURMEJ SINGH | SANGOANA,PO-KAMANPUR,TEH-AJANALA(AMRITSAR) | 8872214007 | F 4567906 |
8 | HARISH KUMAR | SATPAL SINGH | BATALA(GURDASPUR) | 9041426676 | F 8572249 |
9 | GOBINDER SINGH | BALDINDER SINGH | MURAR,PO-HAMIRA(KAPURTHALA) | 8288061663 | H 5671850 |
10 | MALKIT SINGH | SUKHDEV SINGH | H.NO.492 TILIANWALA BATAL(GURDASPUR) | 8427833832 | G 2789715 |
11 | RANJIT SINGH | BALWINDER SINGH | MANAWALA THE:AJNALA(AMRITSAR) | 9914888616 | F 4249185 |
12 | DHARMINDER KUMAR | RAJ KUMAR | TALWANDI JHIRA P.O BHULLAR TEH-BATALA(GURDASPUR) | 9878366751 | H 1088533 |
13 | BALWANT RAI | RONKI RAM | DHADDE(JALANDHAR) | 9779093834 | F 3750388 |
14 | KAMALJIT SINGH | PREM SINGH | CHONI KALAN (HOSHIARPUR) | 9876445697 | F 6725020 |
15 | GURDEEP SINGH | MUKHTAR SINGH | JAIDPUR(HOSHIARPUR) | 9876445697 | G 5214832 |
16 | KULWINDER | JAGDISH KUMAR | KHANKE (BHOGPUR) | 9868650268 | F 7301557 |
17 | ROOP LAL | GURDEV LAL | BATH KALAN,NAKODER | 9814318536 | H 5086171 |
18 | SURJIT MAINKA | HANS RAJ | CHURUWALI (JALANDHAR) | 9501704615 | H 4036925 |
19 | DAWINDER SINGH | KEWAL SINGH | CHAK DESH RAJ (JALANDHAR) | 9872339675 | H 2208614 |
20 | PARVINDER KUMAR | JEET RAM | JAGATPUR | 9464384819 | |
21 | PRITPAL SHARMA | SADHA SINGH | DHURI | 8054245108 | |
22 | RAKESH | MADAN LAL | QADIAN | 7696729094 | |
23 | AMAN KUMAR | HIMACHAL | 9988052991 | ||
24 | INDERJIT | HIMACHAL | 8263012119 | ||
25 | SANDEEP KUMAR | HIMACHAL | 8988199887 | ||
26 | VIDHYA | BUSHAN TIWARI | BIHAR | 9041556454 | |
27 | SANTOSH KUMAR | BIHAR | 8521020065 |
March 21, 2018 at 4:36 pm
The deaths of Indians in Iraq is deplorable. The government should have given informatin to the families of the deceased before giving a public statement in the house
March 21, 2018 at 11:03 pm
Why do you say Punjabis? Why don’t you say the truth “Indians”? You are part of India breaking forces. Each time you mention groups of people by language, State and religious identities and never by a national identity, you are contributing to India’s break up. Is that your agenda?? How much are you paid by ISI and the evangelists to continue this practise? You should be ashamed of yourself.