Hyderabad: In a story reminiscent of an emotional Bollywood potboiler, two sisters from Fujairah are in Hyderabad on a mission to find their long-lost mother.
Aisha Rasheed Eid Obaid, 29, and 27-year-old Fatima Rasheed were in the city to search for their mother Razia, who after getting divorced more than two and a half decades ago had returned home to never meet her daughters again.
Though this is their second such visit to the city in four years, the Rasheed sisters were more hopeful this time as top police officials were taking active interest in their case and have fanned out their teams in parts of old city to trace Razia, believed to be in her fifties.
“We have found some clues from the information provided by the two sisters including a photo copy of her old passport and a faded photograph. We are also trying to locate her house and relatives with the help of a Qazi who had solemnised the marriage almost 35 years ago”, said V Satyanaryana, the Deputy Commissioner of Police, South Zone.
“Our father had told us about our mother while on his death bed about 15 years ago. He had asked us to try to find her and meet her. But at the time we had no idea how to do it. But after our marriage with the help of our husbands we are here to find our mother,” Fatima said.
A resident of Barkas, an Arab neighbourhood in Hyderabad, Zaheda was married to Fujairah resident Rasheed Eid Obaid Masmery on December 7, 1981 and moved to the UAE. After bearing two daughters Rasheed divorced her in 1988 and she returned home.
