Clarke Posted May 7, 2010 Posted May 7, 2010 NEW YORK - Pakistani merchants and job seekers in the United States, still reeling from economic hardship since the Sept. 11 attacks of 2001, are posing as Indians to avoid discrimination in the wake of the Times Square bomb attempt. Once again, a man of Pakistani descent is at the center of a security story, leading to backlash against the Pakistani-American community. Faisal Shahzad, 30, a naturalized American born in Pakistan, was arrested on Monday, two days after authorities say he parked a crude car bomb in New York's busy Times Square. Suspected Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and convicted 1993 World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef are also of Pakistani decent, and anti-American militants fighting U.S. forces in Afghanistan take refuge in Pakistan. In Brooklyn, home to one of the largest Pakistani populations in the United States, business is scant at the various grocery, halal meat and sweet cake shops since a Pakistani-American was suspected in the Times Square plot. More than 100 businesses along Coney Island Avenue have closed due to a 30 per cent drop in business since 2001, a merchants' association said. In Washington, an American man of Pakistani descent told of coming under suspicion this week when he tried to buy garden fertilizer. The Times Square car bomb contained a non-explosive type of fertilizer. While there have been no reported incidents since the failed car bomb attack last Saturday, some Pakistanis are bracing for reprisals. Police have increased foot patrols. "A lot of Pakistanis can't get jobs after 9/11 and now it's even worse," said Asghar Choudhri, an accountant and chairman of Brooklyn's Pakistani American Merchant Association. "They are now pretending they are Indian so they can get a job." India and Pakistan have fought three wars since independence from Britain in 1947, creating hostilities that ordinarily would lead a Pakistani to resent being mistaken for an Indian. According to the latest U.S. census data, some 210,410 people of Pakistani origin reside in the United States. Nearly 15,000 Pakistanis received U.S. immigrant visas last year. "I want to make clear that we will not tolerate any bias or backlash against Pakistani or Muslim New Yorkers," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said this week, noting there are always "a few bad apples." New York is "the city where you can practice your religion and say what you want to say and be in charge of your own destiny and we're going to keep it that way," Bloomberg said. SUSPICION OF GARDENING In Washington, an American of Pakistani heritage who would only be identified as Farhan, said a manager of a suburban home-improvement store prevented him from buying two bags of fertilizer for his family's lawn on Tuesday. Farhan, who was born in northern Virginia, said police arrived soon after, investigated and allowed him to buy the fertilizer. "What kind of a country are we living in when a 22-year-old male can't buy fertilizer?" Farhan asked. "I'm American. I'm not Pakistani." Farhan said the store had subsequently apologized and the case appeared to be one of an overzealous manager rather than store policy. Merchants in New York, many of whom declined to be named, still remember reprisals after Sept. 11. Soon after the attacks, there was a drive-by shooting in Brooklyn at a Pakistani restaurant, which is now closed. The local merchants association has shrunk to 150 members, from about 250 merchants almost a decade ago. The FBI also arrested many undocumented workers in the neighborhood, leading to a wave of deportations, and residents would call law enforcement to make claims against their neighbors, including many false claims, Choudhri said. "After 9/11, we took much pain," he said. "After that, a small beating is nothing. Now the Pakistanis are not so much scared but we are ashamed. We are embarrassed that the name of Pakistan came up." Read more: http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Pakistanis+pose+Indians+after+bomb+scare/2999359/story.html#ixzz0nH3MM8TF ======================================= Just what we need eh, effin wannabes :finger::finger::finger:
Mamu Posted May 7, 2010 Posted May 7, 2010 NEW YORK - Pakistani merchants and job seekers in the United States, still reeling from economic hardship since the Sept. 11 attacks of 2001, are posing as Indians to avoid discrimination in the wake of the Times Square bomb attempt. Once again, a man of Pakistani descent is at the center of a security story, leading to backlash against the Pakistani-American community. Faisal Shahzad, 30, a naturalized American born in Pakistan, was arrested on Monday, two days after authorities say he parked a crude car bomb in New York's busy Times Square. Suspected Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and convicted 1993 World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef are also of Pakistani decent, and anti-American militants fighting U.S. forces in Afghanistan take refuge in Pakistan. In Brooklyn, home to one of the largest Pakistani populations in the United States, business is scant at the various grocery, halal meat and sweet cake shops since a Pakistani-American was suspected in the Times Square plot. More than 100 businesses along Coney Island Avenue have closed due to a 30 per cent drop in business since 2001, a merchants' association said. In Washington, an American man of Pakistani descent told of coming under suspicion this week when he tried to buy garden fertilizer. The Times Square car bomb contained a non-explosive type of fertilizer. While there have been no reported incidents since the failed car bomb attack last Saturday, some Pakistanis are bracing for reprisals. Police have increased foot patrols. "A lot of Pakistanis can't get jobs after 9/11 and now it's even worse," said Asghar Choudhri, an accountant and chairman of Brooklyn's Pakistani American Merchant Association. "They are now pretending they are Indian so they can get a job." India and Pakistan have fought three wars since independence from Britain in 1947, creating hostilities that ordinarily would lead a Pakistani to resent being mistaken for an Indian. According to the latest U.S. census data, some 210,410 people of Pakistani origin reside in the United States. Nearly 15,000 Pakistanis received U.S. immigrant visas last year. "I want to make clear that we will not tolerate any bias or backlash against Pakistani or Muslim New Yorkers," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said this week, noting there are always "a few bad apples." New York is "the city where you can practice your religion and say what you want to say and be in charge of your own destiny and we're going to keep it that way," Bloomberg said. SUSPICION OF GARDENING In Washington, an American of Pakistani heritage who would only be identified as Farhan, said a manager of a suburban home-improvement store prevented him from buying two bags of fertilizer for his family's lawn on Tuesday. Farhan, who was born in northern Virginia, said police arrived soon after, investigated and allowed him to buy the fertilizer. "What kind of a country are we living in when a 22-year-old male can't buy fertilizer?" Farhan asked. "I'm American. I'm not Pakistani." Farhan said the store had subsequently apologized and the case appeared to be one of an overzealous manager rather than store policy. Merchants in New York, many of whom declined to be named, still remember reprisals after Sept. 11. Soon after the attacks, there was a drive-by shooting in Brooklyn at a Pakistani restaurant, which is now closed. The local merchants association has shrunk to 150 members, from about 250 merchants almost a decade ago. The FBI also arrested many undocumented workers in the neighborhood, leading to a wave of deportations, and residents would call law enforcement to make claims against their neighbors, including many false claims, Choudhri said. "After 9/11, we took much pain," he said. "After that, a small beating is nothing. Now the Pakistanis are not so much scared but we are ashamed. We are embarrassed that the name of Pakistan came up." Read more: http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Pakistanis+pose+Indians+after+bomb+scare/2999359/story.html#ixzz0nH3MM8TF ======================================= When I mentioned this (albeit in different terms) -- our Paki friends here -- jump up and down as if I have comited a crime. BTW remember the "Reputation You Enjoy" -- and how YOU (I am sure -- you know who I am talking about here) were furious --- Now read the highlighted parts -- no he is not an Indian -- he is fellow pakistani -- who is narrating that. Some reputation you all have ! -- Njoy
punjabiplaya Posted May 7, 2010 Posted May 7, 2010 Many of the goras i speak to absolutely love indians,especially the punjabis,im not saying that cos im punjabi,but they say the indian community gives so much back,there hard working,have done well financially, enjoy a good laugh and have the best weddings,not many indians sign for social benefit unless absolutely the last straw,pakis wont work unless its absolutely necessary! there mentalitys the same the world over.. thats why they have such a terrible reputation,since pakistans was created they have never risen,and most have have a defeatest attitude and victim mentality and lazy work etchic,then they wonder why everyone hates them,then there jealous of why everyone loves us indians!!!! :haha:
Mamu Posted May 7, 2010 Posted May 7, 2010 BTW This news has hit the Yahoo Headlines http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100507/india_nm/india483210 You know the repurcussions of this, now even Indians will not be trusted. Thanks to these bastards, now even we wont be able to live in peace!. Thank you Pakis -- Thank you for making our lives miserable!
f2000560 Posted May 7, 2010 Posted May 7, 2010 BTW This news has hit the Yahoo Headlines http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100507/india_nm/india483210 You know the repurcussions of this, now even Indians will not be trusted. Thanks to these bastards, now even we wont be able to live in peace!. Thank you Pakis -- Thank you for making our lives miserable! this isn't the first time they have done that !
punjabi_khota Posted May 8, 2010 Posted May 8, 2010 On the other hand, some of my friends caught riding the subway without ticket in europe told the security that they were pakistanis, just to malign the pakis name a little bit more..:rotfl: :phehehe:
Guest Gunner Posted May 8, 2010 Posted May 8, 2010 On the other hand' date=' some of my friends caught riding the subway without ticket in europe told the security that they were pakistanis, just to malign the pakis name a little bit more..:rotfl: :phehehe:[/quote'] :hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical:
Karan114 Posted May 8, 2010 Posted May 8, 2010 On the other hand' date=' some of my friends caught riding the subway without ticket in europe told the security that they were pakistanis, just to malign the pakis name a little bit more..:rotfl: :phehehe:[/quote'] :hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical:
DomainK Posted May 8, 2010 Posted May 8, 2010 On the other hand' date=' some of my friends caught riding the subway without ticket in europe told the security that they were pakistanis, just to malign the pakis name a little bit more..:rotfl: :phehehe:[/quote'] :hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical:
Bumblebee Posted May 8, 2010 Posted May 8, 2010 well it's quite normal, here in Austria all the pakis pretend to be indian, as they wanna get gori chicks but most of them are jahil and gawar speaking in their paendu accent and cant get anything
Texy Posted May 8, 2010 Posted May 8, 2010 Bangladeshis been doing that for years..... I remember once going to some restaurant in Queens named Gandhi...only to find out later that it was owned by a Bangladeshi guy living in Astoria. I have hardly ever seen any Americans visit any pakistani/bangladeshi named restaurant...they get 99% business from their own kind IN houston: restaurants named Bismillah, Shehnai, Sheikh Chilli, mostly gets business from pakistanis and you usually would know a pakistani restaurant from an Indian by the hours of operation.....a pakistani restaurant would mostly stay open over night if not late night till 3-4 am to accommodate taxi drivers......eating mutton/beef biryani at 2 am with no regards to health
h4te Posted May 8, 2010 Posted May 8, 2010 On the other hand' date=' some of my friends caught riding the subway without ticket in europe told the security that they were pakistanis, just to malign the pakis name a little bit more..:rotfl: :phehehe:[/quote'] :hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical:
ViruRulez Posted May 8, 2010 Posted May 8, 2010 On the other hand' date=' some of my friends caught riding the subway without ticket in europe told the security that they were pakistanis, just to malign the pakis name a little bit more..:rotfl: :phehehe:[/quote'] :hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical:
StriKe Posted May 8, 2010 Posted May 8, 2010 On the other hand' date=' some of my friends caught riding the subway without ticket in europe told the security that they were pakistanis, just to malign the pakis name a little bit more..:rotfl: :phehehe:[/quote'] :hysterical::hysterical::hysterical:
achilles Posted May 9, 2010 Posted May 9, 2010 Sad. This is very sad. Profiling is the worst thing a country can do. For me, its worse than waging war. :headshake: On the other hand' date=' some of my friends caught riding the subway without ticket in europe told the security that they were pakistanis, just to malign the pakis name a little bit more..:rotfl: :phehehe:[/quote'] Sick :giggle:
King Tendulkar Posted May 9, 2010 Posted May 9, 2010 On the other hand' date=' some of my friends caught riding the subway without ticket in europe told the security that they were pakistanis, just to malign the pakis name a little bit more..:rotfl: :phehehe:[/quote'] :hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical:
EnterTheVoid Posted May 9, 2010 Posted May 9, 2010 On the other hand' date=' some of my friends caught riding the subway without ticket in europe told the security that they were pakistanis, just to malign the pakis name a little bit more..:rotfl: :phehehe:[/quote']
Pioneer Posted May 9, 2010 Posted May 9, 2010 On the other hand' date='[b'] some of my friends caught riding the subway without ticket in europe told the security that they were pakistanis, just to malign the pakis name a little bit more..:rotfl: :phehehe: For some reason I find that funnier, may your friends live long and prosper. :--D
nballa Posted May 12, 2010 Posted May 12, 2010 its their way of wanting to join back into the indian union. what do you say guys? should we take them back?
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