What was seemingly a short trip overseas for a wedding, turned out to be a year of stress stuck away from New Zealand for a Massey University international student. PhD student Haroon Qazi went home to Pakistan in February 2020 for his brother’s wedding, just before New Zealand went into Covid-19 lockdown, and was meant to be away for only a month.
But border closures meant he ended up stuck overseas for 13 months, a big…
