Cherished Memories of Africa — Page 287
269 secretary prepared the visas for my family quickly and handed over to me. Ordinarily that would take several months. ہل ق ما ق ا رق �� ب � ف I took those papers and went back to Senegal. I wrote to Huzur in detail about getting visas. Huzur directed me to get the family over. I had shifted to Senegal. For Pakistanis getting entry visa to Senegal was as difficult as getting American visa by one from a poor nation. Therefore, it was apparently impossible for my family to get visa for Senegal. Thus I faced another dilemma: me in Senegal and my family in the Gambia, no other Pakistani Ahmadi family in the Gambia, how to look after the children, what about their education and tarbiyyat and so on! The family could not join me in Senegal because they did not have the visa and I could not stay in the Gambia because of duties assigned to me. In the meantime, my family had arrived from Rabwah to Karachi from where they were booked on Ethopian Airlines on a long route to Dakar, Senegal. From there they were going to take the connecting flight on to the Gambia, without seeing me. The members of the Gambia jama’at were going to receive them and arrange their accommodation. I was greatly perplexed and did not know what to do. During that predicament, I had to go to the town for something urgent. While I was passing through a street, somebody put his hand on my shoulder. Turning around I saw that it was my old friend Omer Jobe, the Police inspector. He had been in-charge of the Sene-Gambia border check post for several years. I was