, Jan. 29 -- For three months, Shahinara Khatun has not heard her son's voice.

Her phone no longer rings. No message arrives. Each day, she sits by the window of her home at Bankira village of Jenaidah's Sadhuhati union, watching the road in quiet hope-perhaps today someone will call, perhaps she will hear the familiar words, "Ma, how are you?" But the call never comes.

Shah Alam Siddique Imon, 24, has been missing in Egypt for more than three months and his family does not know whether he is alive or dead.

Imon (passport number is A-08093076) left for Egypt about six months ago, chasing the promise of a better future, said his family members.

With the help of a broker named Imrul from Narail, he secured work at a garment factory ther...