Religious Tension: Montreal

Montreal: The Pakistani woman had suffered several heart attacks in her home of Lahore, the capital of Pakistans Punjab province and the site of intense religious tension. Tahira came to Montreal in 2000 in fear of her ex-husband. She left her one-year-old son behind in the care of her parents, according to CBC. She was escaping her abusive ex-husband, an influential man in their community with ties to religious extremists. At 17, Tahira left her son in the care of her parents and fled to Montreal, where shes lived ever since and Khurshid Begum Awan first came to Montreal from Pakistan as a refugee in 2011, with her husband and grandson. Awans daughter, Tahira, had come to Montreal over a decade earlier, in 2000, when her son was just a year old. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.