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One night seven years ago, I returned to my home in Islamabad to find security agents at my door. They handed me an expulsion later and gave me 72 hours to leave. I was stunned. I had been in Pakistan for a decade. I couldn’t figure out what I had done.
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Over the next three days, all my attempts to stay in the country failed. Doors closed in my face. Intelligence agents detained me and locked me into a hotel room. But my troubles were just one small part of a far bigger story.
For years, people had predicted the end of Pakistan. It is the country where Malala was shot, bin Laden was killed, and Benazir Bhutto was assassinated. But Pakistan survives — a country caught between great promise and the forces that thwart it.
