British analysts "lost" in Qatar

Gundev Ghimire and Kirshna Upadhyaya 

Gundev Ghimire and Kirshna Upadhyaya went to Qatar a month ago 

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The UK Foreign Office is investigating reports that two British men in Qatar who were researching the treatment of vagrant specialists have turned up lost. 

Krishna Upadhyaya, 52, and Gundev Ghimire, 36, have not been gotten notification from since Sunday, the association they were working for said. 

The Global Network for Rights and Development (GNRD) said it suspected the men had been confined. 

Yet it said Qatari powers had denied having any data. 

The men, both of Nepalese beginning, had been in Qatar since 27 August, GNRD, a Norway-based non-legislative association, said. 

Mr Upadhyaya, a scientist, and photographic artist Mr Ghimire had been directing exploration for a report on human rights in the nation, which will have the World Cup in 2022. 

Qatar has confronted censured over the conditions transients are working in front of the football competition. 

'Profoundly concerned' 

Mr Upadhyaya sent a quick message to a companion in Norway on Saturday guaranteeing the pair were being trailed by the police, GNRD said. 

The men were because of leave the nation the accompanying day, yet the human rights association said it had not gotten notification from them. 

GNRD said the British government office in Doha had let it know Mr Upadhyaya had looked at of his inn, yet did not board his flight to Norway. 

In an announcement, GNRD said both it and the men's families had attempted "rehashed exertions" to figure out where the men were. 

"GNRD is profoundly worried that these representatives, both British natives, may have been subjected to implemented vanishing," the association said in an announcement. 

Evgenia Kondrakhina, CEO supervisor of GNRD, said her association reached the Qatari powers and they denied having any data. 

The BBC has likewise attempted to contact the Qatari powers however has yet to get any reaction. 

A UK Foreign Office representative said: "We are mindful of the reports of two British nationals lost in Qatar and we are investigating them." 

The National Human Rights Commission for Qatar has additionally guaranteed to research the case, GNRD said. 

Human rights gatherings have blamed the powers for utilizing outside specialists in "slave-like" conditions in front of the competition. 

Some have been left stranded, working for as meager as $0.85 a day (50p), reports in the UK have said. 

In May, Qatar promised to enhance the privileges of transients in the Gulf state in the midst of developing caution at their treatment.