A Decade-Long Nightmare With No Resolution
Insiya was just two years old when her father snatched her away in September 2016. She has been living in India ever since, and despite years of diplomatic conversations between the two countries, nothing has moved. The frustration inside the Dutch government is no longer hidden.

Foreign Minister Tom Berendsen openly acknowledged it in parliament, and Deputy Prime Minister Dilan Yeşilgöz was direct about why the old approach has stopped working.

For too long, she explained, the case had been treated as a routine consular matter. That framing, she said, was clearly not cutting it anymore.

The delegation now heading to India is expected to engage with the issue in a far more serious and substantive way — specifically working to arrange a face-to-face meeting between Insiya and her mother, Nadia Rashid. Yeşilgöz called it a genuinely different approach from anything tried before.

The Dutch parliament's lower house, the Tweede Kamer, has thrown its full weight behind the effort.

A motion was adopted this week asking the King to personally raise the case with Modi. The King is scheduled to host Modi for lunch on Saturday, and the royal couple has previously expressed deep sympathy for Nadia Rashid's situation.

Court Convictions Are Final — But Insiya Remains Out of Reach
While diplomacy continues to inch forward, th.