After concluding his two-day visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached Qatar and met his Qatari counterpart Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani. The visit holds even more significance as eight Indian Navy personnel, who were sentenced to death on espionage charges by Qatar in November 2023, returned to India on February 12. This came after New Delhi filed an appeal a couple of months ago and charges against the former officials were dropped.
Modi arrived in Doha on Wednesday night on an official visit to Qatar. This is the prime minister’s second visit to Qatar, he first visited Qatar in June 2016.
“Had a wonderful meeting with PM @MBA_AlThani. Our discussions revolved around ways to boost India-Qatar friendship,” Modi said in a post on X after the meeting.
Latest News on PM Modi in Qatar:
• On Thursday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, and hold talks on bilateral as well as regional and global issues, the external affairs ministry said in a press release.
• During his two-day visit, Modi attended a dinner hosted in his honour by Qatar’s prime minister. He reached Doha after a whirlwind two-day trip to the UAE, where he addressed a well-attended Indian diaspora event, the prestigious World Governments Summit, and also inaugurated UAE’s first Hindu stone temple among other engagements.
• The prime minister said the presence of over 8,00,000-strong Indian community in Doha is a testament to our strong people-to-people ties.
• During a media briefing, Indian Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra said, Roughly, 840,000 strong, vibrant Indian community resides in Qatar. According to the 2010 Census of Qatar, Indians accounted for around 25 per cent of the total population.
• A 2012 research paper said “Indians in the construction and the low/unskilled/unorganised sector form between 60 to 70 percent” of the total Indian diaspora in Qatar, whereas, the rest are divided between the professional and the business categories that are termed as “white-collar” occupations.
• In the professional domain, most of the Indians in Qatar are registered as “engineers, medical professionals, media professionals, information technology (software/hardware), teachers, chartered accountants, managers, and architects”, among others, stated the paper.
• A report in MoneyControl quoted a research paper published in OpenEdit Journals that stated around 50 per cent of Indians residing in Qatar are from Kerala.
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