Family searches for father gone missing after Umrah

The children of a senior citizen from Pakistan who went missing during his umrah trip last year are desperately searching for him in the Kingdom.
Rao Bashir Ahmed had come to Saudi Arabia to perform Umrah last year and never returned home.
His son, Taswar Ahmed, is in the Kingdom for a second since their father’s disappearance. Taswar's sisters, Kulsum Bibi and Shameed Bibi, are also here. They have requested the Pakistan Consulate to help locate him.
“My father’s passport number is KL-1161681. On May 6, 2014, he reached Makkah and then moved to Madinah with his group. He went to Makkah again with his group on May 30 and went missing,” Taswar Ahmed told Arab News.
Taswar said that the members of his group searched for his father, but in vain. They finally returned to Pakistan without his father.
“One Aftab, an agent of the local travel agency, which had organized the tour, once told us that he found our father. We asked him to put him up in a hotel and we sent a ticket to him. Unfortunately, our father went missing again,” he said.
Taswar said that fresh attempts to contact Aftab failed.
On September 10, 2014, he came on visit visa to Saudi Arabia but could not find him.
Tahsem-ul-Haq, welfare consul, said that the consulate will try its best to locate Bashir Ahmed. The consulate has sent a request to the foreign office in this regard, he said, adding that they had tried last year, but could not find him.
“We have contacted the representative of the travel firm in Makkah and also sent some of our people there. Hopefully, we will get information from different departments about the missing person,” he said.
A representative of the umrah firm, Atiyha Al-Malki told Arab News that Bashir Ahmed the company staff tried to find Bashir Ahmed in different hospitals and police stations, but did not get any information about him.
He said no efforts will be spared in finding Bashir Ahmed.