"Pakistan meant home to me. I was 15 at the time of partition but in those 15 years i never felt like home. My home, my parents, my siblings and all my friends were living with me but i always felt that something is missing. I felt this way because we muslims were discriminated in every walk of life. My Hindu & Sikh friends used to make fun of me but deep down in my heart i always knew that only Pakistan would be my home. It would be a place where we would spend our lives according to our religion and no one would stop us from practicing Islam."
-Mehrunnisa Begum