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| Immigrant to Canada Expects He Might Be Deported Back to Pakistan |
| 2004-04-27 |
| From Jihad Unspun, written by Abid Ullah Jan (not further identified) I had a meeting with CSIS [Canadian Security Intelligence Service] once against on April 22nd. ... I was told that I have a meting with immigration but it turned out to be a meeting with CSIS agents. I had no problem volunteering myself for interview because of my previous two interviews with them. However it is mid-night 2:57 am and thinking about he questions in the interview and the kind of response the agent had really scares me to death. Due to the severe problems I am facing at home, here in Canada and as a whole in life, I could not sleep well the night before, I was fasting and I cried all the way from my home to the meeting place with the CSIS officials, asking for help from Now as I think about his reaction and emphasis on some points, I am scared to death. I do not rule out the possibility of an arrest right now or any time from now. But before I go, let me summaries the points which scare me so much that I am all shivering at the moment despite all my trust in I have my Masters degree in Chemistry from University of Peshawar and later worked as a lecturer in Chemistry for about three years in a secondary college. Although I hve the next Master degree in Environmental Management and all my life I worked in fields out side Chemistry, the previous CSIS agent also discussed this point seriously. .... Secondly, he had, like the previous agents, collected a bundle of my articles and there in he zoomed in to few sentences and words. Of course anything can mean differently when read out of context but in some cases the words are right there and ignored, which leads of a totally different meaning. .... an unknown reviewer criticized my contribution to the book The Place of Tolerance in Islam. .... Finally there was stressed on a person who is known to me since 1982 as our sports team mate when were part of the Athletic team. His name is Sohail Shehzad, later on he moved to Afghanistan and started calling himself Sohail Farooqi there since his sisters were married to the Taliban. .... He established an NGO in Afghanistan, called Afghanistan Humanitarian, Rehabilitation and Development Organisation (AHRDO). He had a registration and references from the Taliban government and the ambassador of Pakistan in Kabul. He approached me in 1998-99 for linking his organization to UNDP for possible assistance in launching a poverty alleviation programme in Afghanistan. I arranged the Taliban officials meeting with a senior advisor to UNDP. The senior advisor to UNDP then send me as a team members on official visit to Afghanistan in July 1999. .... The last time I met Sohail Farooqi was in August 2001 when he helped me reach Osama for a discussion and possible comments on my book through his neighbour in Kabul who was an Arab. Then came September 11 and the fall of the Taliban and since then I do not know what happened to that Sohail Farooqi as he was a Pashtoon, part and parcel of the Taliban, and in Kabul. So, I do not know about his fate. ... Then there were questions about an organization that the Pakistani nuclear scientist, Bashir ud din Mahmood had established in the name of Ummah Tameer-e-Nao. I heard it in passing from Sohail Farooqi about it that Bashir ud din Mahmood has established this organisation for helping the poor and war affected people in Afghanistan and thatâs it. I was not taking interest in these things .... Anyway since September 11, Ummah Tameer-Nao, is considered as a terrorist organisation, or as far as I can conclude from my meetings with CSIS, because I didnât hear such things when I was in Pakistan. Founder of Ummah Tameer Nao, Bashir ud Din is a free man in Pakistan, I believe. But I am asked, Dr. Israr wrote a post-word on your book but is he linked to Umma Tameer-e-Nao? For me this is a joke because I met Dr. Israr not more than a couple of times .... I was also told that some portions of my write ups could be called as âhate speechâ and challenged in the court. In total contrast to my interviews with other CSIS agents on the same questions before, I feel really and extremely uncomfortable this time. The more I think about his responses: âHummmm Chemistry,â and his repeated questions such as: âSo you called Sohail you friend????????â the more I get nervous. ..... I just wanted to take down these notes and sent out to well-wishers so that everything is known. Lastly, I swear to Allah that in Pakistan I had problems but I had the peace of mind that worse come to worst, I will leave and settle down in Canada until the situation gets normal. Now, not only I feel extremely un-secure but also I find all doors closed on me. .... I just do not want to get deported which will turn my problems from bad to worse in Pakistan as I would not be able to even make it outside the airport. ... I request for leaving Canada voluntarily and with honor. I came here in an honourable way, let the Canadian government not send me back humiliated and labeled with worse accusation than I faced in Pakistan. It should let me and my family leave together voluntarily. .... I think the decision has already been taken in my case. |
| Posted by:Mike Sylwester |
| #2 The Canucks were damned fools for letting you come in the first place. Back to the Turd World for you, scumbag, and I hope somebody there gives you what you've got coming. Of course, you can't possibly be afraid to be delivered back into the hands of such devout followers of the RoP as there are in Pakville, could you? May you be the first of many involuntarily deported because people like you don't deserve to live in the civilized West. AMF, and good riddance. |
| Posted by: mac 2004-04-27 3:30:33 PM |
| #1 Damn right - chemical expert, known links to AQ and Binny. Feel lucky you're not in Gitmo right now. Cheerio! |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2004-04-27 9:18:02 AM |