In Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi, a three-year-old girl waits for her father. Every day she asks if he will finally be picked up from the airport. “How do you explain to a three-year-old child that his father is trapped and can’t come home?” her mother, Ayesha Ameen, told Al Jazeera. Her husband is part of the crew of a tanker that was hijacked off Somalia. He is the victim of a crime with geopolitical dimensions.
