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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Billions of dollars in western military contracts have turned Afghanistan &amp;mdash; long a source of refugees fleeing chronic conflict &amp;mdash; into an unlikely magnet for migrant workers willing to risk their lives for a more lucrative pay packet.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Contractors supplying foreign troops, who have been fighting in Afghanistan for over eight years, often rely on foreign migrant workers for menial but comparatively well-paid jobs in construction, food preparation and other fields.&lt;/font&gt;
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Instead, when he arrived in November, he was locked up in a house with other labourers, given only one meal per day and no work or salary. When his visa expired a month later, the agent vanished and the men turned to their embassy in desperation. &ldquo;We were locked in a kind of camp for one month. This is much better but we have nothing to do still, we just sleep a lot.&rdquo;</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Contractors supplying foreign troops, who have been fighting in Afghanistan for over eight years, often rely on foreign migrant workers for menial but comparatively well-paid jobs in construction, food preparation and other fields.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Many of those stranded had been transferred from Dubai, a popular destination for poor Indians who often pay hefty fees to secure work, earning much more than they could at home.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">&ldquo;About six months earlier, we had stray cases of Indians sent by unscrupulous agents to Afghanistan from Gulf countries, mainly from Dubai, on the false promise of remunerative employment,&rdquo; the Indian embassy in Kabul said in a statement. &ldquo;This trickle suddenly turned to a veritable flood, including also some cases of use of fraudulent visas,&rdquo; the statement added. </font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The embassy is helping cover the costs of feeding the men, and has also sent doctors to check their health, but declined to give an overall total of the number affected.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Often barely literate and with few resources or connections, migrant workers are highly vulnerable to fraudsters and cheats. Khandu said he had already lost money when another fake agent sent him to Bangkok for a job that also did not exist.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">But strained labour markets and low wages at home mean many feel they have little choice but to seek work overseas.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Diplomats helped arrange for the men stuck in Afghanistan to stay at the gurdwara. Sikh temples traditionally have a free food kitchen attached, and in Kabul a central hall has also been turned into an ad-hoc refugee camp.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">A mix of men from Rajasthan, Mahrashtra, Andhra Pradesh and other states now spend most of the day huddled round a brazier or dozing under blankets waiting for rescue. They are trained as carpenters, electricians and masons, but work is short in Afghanistan and they worry about security problems. The embassy says it is doing as much as it can to help this batch and prevent a repeat of the fiasco.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">&ldquo;The Afghan authorities have been requested to exercise caution in granting visas for potential Indian workers in Afghanistan by checking on their employment status,&rdquo; its statement said.<br />
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Indians stuck in Kabul job net

Kabul (Reuters): Dozens of Indian labourers have been forced to take refuge in a Sikh temple in Kabul after job agents who promised lucrative jobs in the unstable capital disappeared, leaving the men penniless and without passports. Billions of dollars in western military contracts have turned Afghanistan — long a source of refugees fleeing chronic conflict — into an unlikely magnet for migrant workers willing to risk their lives for a more lucrative pay packet. Around 200 stranded men were crowded into the Karte Parwan Gurdwara, the centre of Afghanistan’s small Sikh community, last month. Many flew home after their families scraped together funds for flights and travel documents, but over 30 are still stuck. Subhedar Khandu from Mumbai is one of them. He said he paid Rs 150,000 to an agent who promised he would earn $800 a month doing construction in Afghanistan. “I took out a loan to pay the agent, who I met in Mumbai. I thought I would get a one-year contact,” Khandu said. Instead, when he arrived in November, he was locked up in a house with other labourers, given only one meal per day and no work or salary. When his visa expired a month later, the agent vanished and the men turned to their embassy in desperation. “We were locked in a kind of camp for one month. This is much better but we have nothing to do still, we just sleep a lot.” Contractors supplying foreign troops, who have been fighting in Afghanistan for over eight years, often rely on foreign migrant workers for menial but comparatively well-paid jobs in construction, food preparation and other fields. Many of those stranded had been transferred from Dubai, a popular destination for poor Indians who often pay hefty fees to secure work, earning much more than they could at home. “About six months earlier, we had stray cases of Indians sent by unscrupulous agents to Afghanistan from Gulf countries, mainly from Dubai, on the false promise of remunerative employment,” the Indian embassy in Kabul said in a statement. “This trickle suddenly turned to a veritable flood, including also some cases of use of fraudulent visas,” the statement added. The embassy is helping cover the costs of feeding the men, and has also sent doctors to check their health, but declined to give an overall total of the number affected. Often barely literate and with few resources or connections, migrant workers are highly vulnerable to fraudsters and cheats. Khandu said he had already lost money when another fake agent sent him to Bangkok for a job that also did not exist. But strained labour markets and low wages at home mean many feel they have little choice but to seek work overseas. Diplomats helped arrange for the men stuck in Afghanistan to stay at the gurdwara. Sikh temples traditionally have a free food kitchen attached, and in Kabul a central hall has also been turned into an ad-hoc refugee camp. A mix of men from Rajasthan, Mahrashtra, Andhra Pradesh and other states now spend most of the day huddled round a brazier or dozing under blankets waiting for rescue. They are trained as carpenters, electricians and masons, but work is short in Afghanistan and they worry about security problems. The embassy says it is doing as much as it can to help this batch and prevent a repeat of the fiasco. “The Afghan authorities have been requested to exercise caution in granting visas for potential Indian workers in Afghanistan by checking on their employment status,” its statement said.