The article details the struggles of a 24-year-old Afghan woman aspiring to be a surgeon, faced with the challenges of being a Christian in Pakistan while seeking asylum. Living in fear of police arrest and deportation back to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, her family strives for a better future. Despite having UN asylum documentation, their attempts to secure a safe passage to the US for medical training and safety remain frustrated. The woman's hope embodies resilience against oppressive circumstances that restrict her and her family's freedom.
I hope a lot that I will be a doctor in the future. I don't know it will happen, but I hope. It means that a woman is powerful, that if she wants to do something, she can.
Simply as a woman in the Taliban's Afghanistan her lifestyle would be severely restricted, but as Christians the whole family would literally be in mortal danger.
Every day, police come to our house. It's too difficult for us. In these days, we awake with a fear.
To the police in Pakistan, those UN documents don't matter either. What matters is that the family is Afghan and is no longer wanted there.
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