Now his life is forfeit.
- So I’m helping publicize his story a little bit more:
- As befits a fugitive with an alias, “Amir” is both a hero and a hunted man. In hiding since May from a Pakistani terrorist group doggedly tracing him, he wrote in an e-mail on June 18, “I know that they will kill me soon.” But no fear, he wrote in broken English: “I am ready for die.”
- Amir, a Christian in majority-Muslim Pakistan, knew he would have to flee with his family when he mounted an undercover rescue of Christian children kidnapped by Muslim traffickers. In doing so, he gathered film footage that could severely damage a popular Islamic charity—and terrorist front—in Pakistan, called Jamaat ud Dawa, or JUD.
- While his life was always at risk, things turned worse weeks after the rescue. Amir hoped to win safe passage to the United States or another country to escape JUD. But while U.S. embassy and State Department officials have seemed eager to collect his evidence against JUD, they offered no visa or asylum as of June 22, more than a month since Amir pleaded for sanctuary.
- Amir, a Christian in majority-Muslim Pakistan, knew he would have to flee with his family when he mounted an undercover rescue of Christian children kidnapped by Muslim traffickers. In doing so, he gathered film footage that could severely damage a popular Islamic charity—and terrorist front—in Pakistan, called Jamaat ud Dawa, or JUD.