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At some point in his journey to a freer place, Ahtisham Khan came to a fork in the road. Fifty days of travel from his native Pakistan to the plains of northern Greece had been unexpectedly frightening and exhausting.
âWe had a lot of dreams,â he says, recalling why he and his brother, Zeeshan, left their village close to the city of Haripur in Pakistan. âWe were teenagers ⦠we didnât know what we were embarking on. We did what we had to do to survive.â
The road divided for the brothers when Khan, then 16, ended up in police detention outside the Greek border town of Orestiada after his fifth attempt to enter the EU from Turkey.