One year after hostage crisis, it’s back to KGL

A good pay package here means Rs 15,000 a month, says Jasbir, who earns Rs 5,000 now.

Gurdaspur’s Lakhwinder Singh, 26, another driver, says, ‘‘Why should I keep slogging to death all my life? It’s better to die there than here.’’

It’s not the young alone who are ready to risk their necks, 42-year-old Kundan Singh says he will never stop trying for a job in Kuwait.

Pradeep Soni, owner of Soni Placement Agency, sought to downplay the Iraq angle, saying that they were conducting interviews strictly for Kuwait. And so overwhelming is the response that the company, which conducted recruitments in Hoshiarpur last week, is planning to go there again on July 21.

When contacted, Loknath, Senior Superintendent of Police, Hoshiarpur, said he was not aware of any such interviews. ‘‘Unless we get a complaint, we have no reason to interfere,’’ he said.