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CM · Apr 13, 2001, 12:17 PM

Dang diplomat, can't do anything right.
The guy should be tortured and then killed........for getting caught!!

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**mohabbat** · Apr 13, 2001, 02:37 PM

Pakistani diplomat expelled from Nepal

KATHMANDU, April 13 (AFP) -
A Pakistani diplomat was Friday expelled from Nepal and given 24 hours to leave the country after he was found in possession of powerful explosives, state-run television reported.

The Pakistani embassy's first secretary, Mohammad Arshad Cheema, and his wife Rubina Cheema were detained late Thursday at a rented house in Kathmandu.

Cheema was arrested for possessing 16 kilogrammes (35 pounds) of explosives.

"The Nepalese government has expelled the Pakistani first secretary detained with large quantities of explosives," the television said.

"As it is incompatible with his diplomatic duties and inconsistent with the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations, the Nepalese government has decided that the Pakistani diplomat, Mr. Cheema, should leave the country within 24 hours," the television quoted a foreign ministry statement as saying.

Cheema has denied the explosives belonged to him.

"Cheema said he was living in the rented house in Kathmandu but said he had nothing to do with the explosives and does not know how they found their way into the house," a home ministry official said, asking to remain anonymous.

"He said the whole thing was a set up by India and blamed it on the Indians," he added.

The Pakistani embassy here also described the incident as "fabricated."

According to neighbours, the downstairs flat of Cheema's house was used as the offices of a highway construction firm Sachel Engineering.

Police chief Madhav Thapa, who led the arrest on Thursday after police received a tip-off, said it was the first time such a large quantity of powerful explosives -- enough to destroy the entire Kathmandu valley -- had been recovered.

India has often accused Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence of using Nepal as a base to route explosives into India.

**skv anand** · Apr 13, 2001, 03:42 PM

Recently there were riots in Nepal against the so-called irrelevant comments of an Indian actor. Pak media exploited the stage for Nepal grievances against India. Pak citizens clapped for long. �Nepal hates India.�

I propose you to change the stance. We are ready for a new slogan.
�Nepal is taking guidelines from India.�

**Infoman** · Apr 13, 2001, 03:59 PM

Nepal hates Pakistan!!

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**sajjadm** · Apr 14, 2001, 02:55 AM

"Pakistan tasteing it's own medicine"

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CM · Apr 14, 2001, 05:50 AM

Indians on this forum are really really boring.

Or Indians here rather make fun of pakistan then deal with real politik issues.

Which one would you think describes this group of simpltons??

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**skv anand** · Apr 14, 2001, 06:06 AM

CM,

You may have no taste for satire. Personally for you we belong to the first one.

Though I prefer the second option half and half separately.

Rgds

**Azad Munna** · Apr 14, 2001, 08:10 AM

Originally posted by skv anand:
CM,

You may have no taste for satire. Personally for you we belong to the first one.

Though I prefer the second option half and half separately.

Rgds

INDIANS ORDERED TO MARCH BACK TO THE PAVILLION AFTER BEING TOTALLY BOWLED OUT COMPLETELY

Skv you are only one type UNEMPLOYED & DESPERATE 5 days To find another job.!!!
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Friday April 13, 10:58 AM

Laid-off Asian tech workers face U.S. visa limbo
By Sonya Hepinstall

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When he was spared in company-wide lay-offs late
last year, the telecom engineer from Bangalore, India, was lulled into a
warm sense of security -- a false one, as it turned out.

"You sort of anticipate in this industry that if something comes up, we
should be prepared. But it's very difficult. We never thought it would
really happen," said the engineer, who wanted to be identified only as
Shekar.

Shekar was a programmer at Chicago-based Internet consultant Xpedior
Inc. working on big business software systems for clients such as
Unisys, Verizon and Fannie Mae.

"I really liked it... We were like a team. We were like a part of the
company. We were trying to build it," he said in a telephone interview
of those heady days.

But on March 20, Xpedior told 300 employees, or 42 percent of its work
force, they had two hours to pack up and leave the company. Xpedior said
it wanted to sell all or part of its operations; it has since
voluntarily delisted from the Nasdaq stock market.

"It was very painful to know that we couldn't go further and we had to
give it up and it was all over," Shekar said.

Painful for everyone. But for holders of guest worker visas like Shekar,
getting laid off meant not only being out of a job but being "out of
status." As far the U.S. government is concerned, that means --
technically -- he was here illegally.

EXPECTED HUGE DEMAND

It was the expected huge demand in the technical sector that led in
October 2000 to a hike in the guest worker quota of so-called H1B visas
to 195,000 per year up to the end of fiscal 2003 from 115,000 in 2000.

More than half of the H1Bs granted to skilled workers in 1999 and 2000
were given to those in technical fields in order to meet what was then
seen as a desperate shortage of high-tech talent, the Immigration and
Naturalization Service (INS) said.

Indians have made up 41 percent of the beneficiaries since the program
started in 1992, followed by Chinese with 10 percent and Canadians a
distant third with three percent.

Things look different now. The technical boom has gone bust. Dotcoms are
dissolving, options are worthless and profits even at the blue chips of
the tech sector are in free-fall.

For some of the non-American workers who were supposed to be the foot
soldiers of a new technological era, the comedown has been devastating,
and incredibly sudden.

Dotcoms have been known to fire employees -- both domestic and foreign
-- on the spot, sending H1B visa holders off on a frenzied scramble to
find new jobs.

Technically, the INS would be justified in ordering laid-off H1B workers
to leave the country.

In reality, however, the INS, itself taken by surprise by the situation,
has taken the more pragmatic path of dealing with each person on a
case-by-case basis.

Although the conventional wisdom is that H1B holders have up to 10 days
to find a new job, in fact there is no official timeframe, leaving
people in a kind of immigration limbo.

"It gives us stomachaches when people ask 'how much time do I have?',"
said Linda Hoffman, a lawyer at immigration law firm Freilicher and
Hoffman in Washington.

IT WASN'T YOUR FAULT

Immigration lawyers said it was not that the INS had changed its policy.

"If the person's out of status, the INS has always been fairly
reasonable in saying 'OK, we're going to allow you to change jobs
because you found that job in five days and we understand that it really
wasn't your fault'," said immigration lawyer Dawn Lurie.

The INS hopes to introduce proposed regulations in May that will pin
down exactly the amount of time H1B visa holders have, INS spokeswoman
Eyleen Schmidt said. In the meantime the deadline will have to remain
vague.

"Prior to this particular slowdown we hadn't seen a lot of these types
of requests and so it's hard to say," she said, adding: "It does seem
that the sooner you can find employment, (the better for you)."

Lurie said in the meantime provisions in the new bills passed by
Congress -- dubbed grandly the "American Competitiveness in the 21st
Century Act" -- that allowed for the "portability" of the H1B visas from
job to job with relative ease have helped laid-off workers find new
employers.

The U.S. immigration service does not know the total number of H1B visa
holders currently in the United States but quotes a Georgetown
University report, using INS data, that put the number at around
450,000.

The number of H1B visa holders who have been laid off is also not known.
INS's Schmidt said there had been more approvals than denials of
applications to "port" H1B visas after being laid off, but could not
provide figures.

Anecdotal evidence indicates that most people appear to be able to find
new work, and relatively quickly. Two cases Lurie handled found work
within eight days.

MEANWHILE, NEW APPLICATIONS CONTINUE

Meanwhile applications for new H1B visas continue. As of March 7, 72,000
new H1B visas had been granted in the fiscal year that started Sept. 1,
2000, and there are 66,000 more petitions pending.

Shekar has not yet found new work but he is lucky: his wife won H1B
status just one week before he was laid off so he is now a dependent.

He is actively looking for work and has had a few bites, but salary is
starting to become an issue these days: "They're saying, 'You'll have to
take a pay cut'."

Despite the legal headaches, coming to the United States was the right
thing to do, he said.

"I don't regret it because it's given me so much knowledge and
opportunity," he said. "If I go back I have so much experience, I can
market that in my country," the south Asian national said.

As for staying on: "You keep trying till you get something to happen,
(but) once you know it can't happen it's wise to pack and go back."

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jaise phir naya hum aashiyaan bana nahi sakte

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**Infoman** · Apr 14, 2001, 11:08 AM

Originally posted by CM:
Indians on this forum are really really boring.

Or Indians here rather make fun of pakistan then deal with real politik issues.

Which one would you think describes this group of simpltons??

Is that your contribution to the thread? For some who decries about intelligent postings and fluff, you seem to be showing the much maligned traits.

The irony is.......you refered to Indians as "simpltons". Nice word..however, even simpletons can spell simpleton...so what does that make you.LOL!

And Munna bete, How does this story relate to Pakistani diplomatic terrorists?

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CM · Apr 14, 2001, 12:11 PM

Skv, satire is lost on me.
As well as black humor.
Now don't presume to say what i think.
There are some who do discuss other issues and then there are some who are just idiots.

Infoman, spelling ain't my bag never has been, blame my education systems.
And just to point out, that is a typo.
And what is my comment to the thread???
I said the guy should be killed.
Ain't that enough?
You want me to do the act myself??

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