Indian doctor rescued after 18 months in Libya

Sushma Swaraj is the current Minister of External Affairs of India; she was elected on 26th May, 2014.

A former Supreme Court lawyer, Swaraj is the second Indian woman to be Minister of External Affairs after Indira Gandhi.

In her political career, Swaraj has been elected 7 times as a Member of Parliament and 3 times as a Member of the Legislative Assembly.

In October 2016, thousands of Indians in Saudi Arabia lost their jobs due to low oil prices and budget cuts imposed by the Saudi Arabian government.

For some Indians, it was a struggle to purchase food.

The Ministry of External Affairs under Sushma Swaraj rescued the Indian workers that were trapped without jobs and wanted to come back, and ensured their safe return.

On 27th September, 19 Pakistani girls came to India to be a part of the Global Youth Peace Festival at Chandigarh.

Surgical strikes carried out by the Indian army made their return an apprehensive situation.

Sushma Swaraj ensured that the girls were given extra security and also assured their safe return to their home country.

A Pakistani woman reached out to External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Twitter in order to receive a medical visa to India.

This visa was required for the woman's husband to undergo a liver transplant in Apollo Hospital, Chennai.

Using her discretion, the MEA Minister directed the Indian embassy to issue visas to the couple without prior referral from the Ministry of Home Affairs.

In April 2015, Sushma Swaraj helped evacuate a girl reportedly under house arrest from Johannesburg, South Africa.

In May 2016, Indian woman in Berlin, Germany who lost her passport and money was helped by Swaraj for the same.

At the time of the Nepal earthquake, Sushma Swaraj was swift in responding to individual concerns on Twitter apart from providing help at the bureaucratic level.

In yet another case, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj sought a report from the Indian Ambassador in the US on the arrest of a Baroda-based businessman.

53-year-old Radhakrishnan was arrested at the Grand Forks International Airport for allegedly making a bomb-threat by telling a travel agent that there was an explosive in his bag.

His wife had reached out to the minister on Twitter.

Five employees of an Indian Merchant Navy firm were jailed in Togo since 2013 for their suspected involvement in a piracy attack off the coast of Togo.

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj announced their release in a tweet, saying, "We have secured the release of 5 Indians from Kerala jailed in Togo. Good work by Indian mission in Acra and consulate in Togo."

The Indian mission in the United Arab Emirates has been directed by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj to follow up the investigation regarding the death of 3 Indians during a fire in a diesel tank.

On Twitter, she described the cause of death to be suffocation in a diesel tank fire in Sharjah.

The Sharjah Police launched an investigation to rule out criminal acts.

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj tweeted on Tuesday night about the rescue of Dr. Ramamurthy Kosanam who was abducted in Libya 18 months ago.

According to her tweet, Dr. Kosanam suffered a bullet injury but will soon be back in India.

The minister commended the rescue mission, stating that along with Dr. Kosanam, all six Indians abducted in Libya were liberated.