Pakistan is an almost impossible task. I have the necessary contacts, but entering is so dangerous that it is forbidden by most, if not all, Western embassies, because of the killings of mainly foreign nurses and doctors.
They don't want us to help the minority groups (about 6 million people!) who are mainly Christians. Even now, there are reported bombings of the Taliban and Al Qaeda network in and around the airport where I normally land.
It makes little difference in Pakistan to which religion you actually belong. Even humanitarian organizations, including the vaccination teams of the World Health Organization, are a target. The attacks are usually fatal.
As long as you're not a Muslim, you're the enemy.
The minority groups that we work with get no help from the Muslim government, cannot study and need to work as slaves. They are often mistreated and abused while they live in the worst regions, as in the flood areas at the foot of the Western foothills of the Himalayas.
Yet we still help case by case: Aksha, the teenage girl who was heavily burned, and Ramish, who needed emergency surgery, among others.
