Lahore can be an unkindly place where many things both past and present can go unforeseen. I am trying to chronicle the past and the present as my country of Punjab and ergo Pakistan struggle with both extremism as well Islam. I have been detained , arrested and followed by security forces from many administrations. Fundamentally no one here can have a mind or a view without drawing unwanted attention.
I find irony that both the United States and small places like Henrico Virginia were colonized by the same persons who colonized Lahore and Peshawar. I mention Henrico because my distant cousin Asif Ashram Gill lived there a few years back and spoke of its ways and laws.
What will we become? I am not a criminal but am treated like one.
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