That's what Pakistan, my homeland, has done in the past few weeks.

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Never did I imagine then that I would one day have the privilege to represent my country as Ambassador in her former homeland, what is now the Czech Republic.

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So when I arrived in Ireland for a vacation to my ancestral homeland earlier this month, I was elated to find that the contest would be televised on the last night of my stay.

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Would my faith in the banh mi in its homeland be restored?

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Earlier today, I was briefed by my homeland security team on the events in Boston.

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We settled in the San Francisco Bay Area and I first returned in 2000 to Herat to report and to reconnect with my homeland.

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But it's also my job to ensure that our intelligence, law enforcement and homeland security systems and the people in them are working effectively and held accountable.

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