Nepali lawmaker Prabhu Sah, who heads

Nepali lawmaker Prabhu Sah, who heads a parliamentary panel appointed to probe reports of abuse of Nepali migrants in the Middle East, said he found many women were still being duped and were being trafficked via the international airport. "Half of the women we met told us that they had left from Kathmandu's airport without being questioned by authorities, while the other half had travelled through India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, "Sah told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. "It is not possible for so many women to pass through the airport without the knowledge of immigration officials. The government must investigate this. Our women are living in a very pathetic condition there. "Sah was speaking after leading a parliamentary team on a trip to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. The delegation met with nearly 500 Nepali workers, mainly women, who had been stranded after managing to escape from their employers.He said traffickers took the women on visitor visas rather than work visas promising them good jobs, but then sold them for $ 5,000 each to employers as maids. Many were overworked, beaten or raped. Most were unpaid.