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Ali's tragic story begins aboard an overcrowded fishing trawler that sank off the coast of Greece in 2023. It was a catastrophe in which over 300 Pakistani refugees lost their lives, an event that left the families of victims, like Ali’s, in a state of limbo—desperate for information that may never come. Since the incident, the International Rescue Committee has estimated the total number of victims from this tragedy to be around 600.
Despite a year and a half passing since Ali's fateful journey, his family has received no updates on his condition or his whereabouts. Ali was an ambitious young man who set out for Europe with dreams of sending money back home to finish building their family's house—a plan now shattered by uncertainty.