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Hamid Khan says he just wants to go home.

After leaving his job at an engineering company in Lahore, Pakistan to come to Canada last summer, Khan bought Westmount Foods on 29th Street West in early January. Owning a business in Saskatoon was “my dream,” he said.

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Now that dream is in tatters.

Westmount Foods has been robbed at least three times since late December, when Khan was learning how to run the store from its previous owner. One employee said he was robbed twice in three days.

Khan said vandals have broken the store’s plate glass windows and thieves have on two occasions stolen lottery tickets from behind the counter.

The latest incident, an armed robbery on Monday night, convinced him to cut his losses. He plans to liquidate the store’s inventory, sell it and move back to Pakistan.

“I spent $200,000 and what am I getting? Fear? My blood pressure high?” Khan said Tuesday as customers lined up to buy snacks and cigarettes and offered words of support for the store and its owner.