MAJID JAHANGIR
It doesn't matter now whether he gets the confirmation letter or not. Tariq Ahmed Rather's family is not interested any more.
Around five years ago, they were shocked to find out that all Tariq's colleagues had got their jobs confirmed for the Uri Hydro-electricity project except for him. Tariq, then working as a mason for the power company on a contract basis, left his Uri home for Delhi to get a confirmation order. He never returned.
"The entire family felt bad when only he did not receive the order. He decided to meet company officials in Delhi to check as to why he had not been adjusted like all his colleagues," recalls his wife Tahira, now a 31-year-old. "Even his colleagues advised him that he must go."
"I know nothing about his whereabouts for the last five years now," says a teary-eyed Tahira. A few months after Tariq went missing, Tahira moved to Srinagar with her three children to look for a job. "More importantly, I shifted so that I could trace my missing husband," she says. Tahira now earns her living by knitting and stitching and lives in a rented accommodation in the city.
"I have approached many NGOs and officials in these five years for help to trace my missing husband but to no avail," she says. Tahira says she has visited every jail in Srinagar and Baramulla, Tariq's native district.
Tahira's ordeal was not restricted to only tracing out her missing husband though. "After my husband disappeared, my in-laws turned me out and there was no one to take care of me or my children," she says. "All three children are studying and I will make sure their education doesn't suffer."
And she still hasn't given up effrots to trace out her husband. "My children often ask me about their father. I assure them that they will return one day," she says.
It doesn't matter now whether he gets the confirmation letter or not. Tariq Ahmed Rather's family is not interested any more.
Around five years ago, they were shocked to find out that all Tariq's colleagues had got their jobs confirmed for the Uri Hydro-electricity project except for him. Tariq, then working as a mason for the power company on a contract basis, left his Uri home for Delhi to get a confirmation order. He never returned.
"The entire family felt bad when only he did not receive the order. He decided to meet company officials in Delhi to check as to why he had not been adjusted like all his colleagues," recalls his wife Tahira, now a 31-year-old. "Even his colleagues advised him that he must go."
"I know nothing about his whereabouts for the last five years now," says a teary-eyed Tahira. A few months after Tariq went missing, Tahira moved to Srinagar with her three children to look for a job. "More importantly, I shifted so that I could trace my missing husband," she says. Tahira now earns her living by knitting and stitching and lives in a rented accommodation in the city.
"I have approached many NGOs and officials in these five years for help to trace my missing husband but to no avail," she says. Tahira says she has visited every jail in Srinagar and Baramulla, Tariq's native district.
Tahira's ordeal was not restricted to only tracing out her missing husband though. "After my husband disappeared, my in-laws turned me out and there was no one to take care of me or my children," she says. "All three children are studying and I will make sure their education doesn't suffer."
And she still hasn't given up effrots to trace out her husband. "My children often ask me about their father. I assure them that they will return one day," she says.
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