Australia: Desperate mother tries to retrieve daughters from Pakistan
May 08, 2009
Habiba Hosseini has been a refugee for all but six of her 32 years. Her parents fled the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan with their young children in the early 1980s for Iran, where they lived an uneasy existence as refugees in a hostile host country.
Now the single mother of two is again seeking refuge, this time in Australia - an ocean away from the incessant violence and upheaval of her South Asian home.
Habiba says she is desperate to get her daughters out of Pakistan, where they face constant harassment and fear of reprisals from the husband she ran from, and back into school in a country where they can live freely.
The Australian
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