Perspective: Loving Pakistan is hard, but not impossible

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For a person who expects a lot of things from his country,Pakistan is not the place for him.If you want to live here you have to forget all your expectations.

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By Hania Aimen Ahmad | December 8, 2013

There's this one question which I have been asked many times. How do you live in Pakistan? Don't you want to run away from here? If you are ever given a chance would you leave this country? My answer is no, a thousand times no. And I always get that surprised look on the face of the person asking me the question and he want the reasons.

For a person who expects a lot of things from his country, Pakistan is not the place for him. If you want to live here you have to forgo all your expectations. We Ahmadis in Pakistan went through a lot and by that I really mean a lot. Ahmadis here when going to their places of work do not know if they will ever return home. Life here is uncertain. Perhaps a very few people can understand what Ahmadis went through during and after the Lahore mosques attacks in 2010. It was a dreadful time which left some terrible memories. Then why I want to live here?

My grandfather taught me this one thing I'll remember the rest of my life. He told me that it's not about what your country gives you, it's about what you give to your country. And this little advice has helped me along a lot. Even after what has happened here, the law and order situation, the attacks on Ahmadis and everything else, my love has just increased and so do my prayers for Pakistan. This is what I have learned from the Ahmadiyya Islam teachings and from the sermons of my leader, the Ahmadiyya Khalifa, that we should help from God and always pray for our country. The worse the situation gets ,the more I pray for Pakistan.

People try their best to leave Pakistan, but my point of view is different. What do the people who are attacking us Ahmadis want? They want us to leave this country and if that is what we will do, in a way we will helping them achieve their goal. So I want to stay here to prove that I am not afraid of them.They can do whatever they like. I will live here because this country belongs to me just as much as it belongs to them.

Pakistan is my home.It is a part of what I am today.




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Hania Aimen Ahmad lives in Rabwah,Pakistan


  --  Perspective: "Loving Pakistan is hard,but not impossible"


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