Qatar Journalist Flees Country

SURFACES IN THAILAND, MARRIES THAI GIRL, SAYS 'NOT COMING BACK'

A Qatar Diary Exclusive!

An Indian journalist working for the local daily national, The Peninsula, last week fled from a Singapore hotel, where he was on an official visit, landed in Bangkok, got married to a Thai girl known to him, and expressed intentions that he never wished to return to Qatar again.

The "40-something" reporter, who had been working in this Gulf nation for almost 10 years was sent to Singapore by his newspaper, alongwith other journalists from different publications of Qatar, to cover the annual International World Bank meet.

He was due to return, as were the other journalists who did, last week. However, the Peninsula reporter fled the hotel "at approximately 2.30 in the morning" the night before he were to take the flight back to Qatar.

After a few days of searching for the reporter, his paper found out that he had landed in Bangkok and had, in fact, "already married a Thai chick known to him for a few years" and, had decided to never return to Qatar.

According to another source, who seems close to the runaway reporter (message in comments section), he is yet to marry, and the girl "isn't Thai."

It is however unconfirmed why he would 'escape' and not actually resign and leave. Sources say he "had a bank loan" (unconfirmed though), which he had now, possibly, succesfully escaped.

He leaves behind in Qatar, his "Filipina wife."