Pakistani Americans to Ask Obama, Congress to Shun Anti-Pakistan Campaign

[Omar1984]

Pakistani Americans to Ask Obama, Congress to Shun Anti-Pakistan Campaign, Suggest a 'Partnership for Peace'

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Pakistan American National Alliance (PANA), a US-wide coalition of Pakistani-American organizations, will hold a press conference at National Press Club in DC on Monday, Jan 26 to urge the Obama Administration and the US Congress to shun the anti-Pakistan campaign that will be formally launched by Indian Task Force on Tuesday, Jan 27 to "demand" the US should "confront" Pakistan.


"We want to inform the Obama Administration that they should pursue US interest in the context of world peace and stability instead of lending credence to interests of any one community," says PANA Chair Dr Muhammad Ashraf Toor.


By introducing an amendment to the Biden-Lugar Bill (S. 3263), the Indian Task Force is trying to acquire the capacity to micromanage Pakistan's internal affairs.


PANA leadership contends that this anti-Pakistan campaign by the Indian Task Force will revive old hostilities, re-polarize Indian and Pakistani communities, jeopardize US interests, undermine prospects for peace in South Asia and weaken the centrist force while strengthening the extremists.


PANA has proposed a partnership for peace to eradicate violence and extremism by seeking to address their root causes.


WHAT: Presenting a Peace Plan to Obama Administration, US Congress


WHEN: Monday, January 26, 2009 @ 12: 00 Noon


WHERE: National Press Club

529 14th Street, NW,

Murrow Room, 13th Floor,

Washington, D.C. 20045

202-662-7515, fax 202-662-7512


WHO:

Assemblyman Saghir Tahir -- New Hamphshire

Dr. Ashraf Toor -- PANA Chair

Dr. Fawzia Afzal Khan -- Award Winning Author and Professor of English Literature

Dr. Agha Saeed -- Founder of PANA


*** The Pakistan American National Alliance (PANA) is a US-wide coalition of grassroots Pakistani-American organizations. It was founded in 2002 and its member organizations include: Coalition of Pakistani Organizations of Chicago (CPOC), Pakistan American Democratic Forum (PADF), Pakistan Community Association of New Orleans (PCANO), Pakistani American Council of Texas (PACT), Pakistani Association of Riverside (PAR), and Pakistan League of America (PLA).

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Pakistani Americans to Ask Obama, Congress to Shun Anti-Pakistan Campaign, Suggest a 'Partnership for Peace'

 

[metalfalcon]

We Pakistanis are peace loving Nation, Please don't push us to the limits.

 

[kidwaibhai]

they should join up with APPNA ( All Pakistan Physicians of North America) these guys are all loaded and at the end of the day all that matters in washington is how much money you can put on the table.

 

[Omar1984]

If anyone reading this lives near Washington D.C please support our fellow Pakistanis.

 

[matta]

they should join up with APPNA ( All Pakistan Physicians of North America) these guys are all loaded and at the end of the day all that matters in washington is how much money you can put on the table.

dont talk of money please you cant macth indians in money american physcians of indian origin is the biggest after ama american medical association. and you know about our billiioionirs like malya who love thir country from core.

 

[matta]

Indian American task force meets US lawmakers

January 28, 2009

A group of 150 influential Indian American leaders met members of the new Obama [Images] administration and top Congressmen in Washington, DC on Thursday, demanding that pressure be built upon Pakistan to punish those responsible for carrying out the terrorist strikes in Mumbai on November 26 last year.

The group, known as the Indian American Task Force, comprises leaders from nine major national organizations and many more regional organizations spread across the US, representing over 2.5 million US citizens and permanent residents of Indian heritage living in the United States.

Mukesh Advani [Images], San Francisco-based Task Force joint coordinator, said: "We are here not simply to highlight terrorism directed against innocent civilians in India, but also because we believe that these developments in India represent a clear security challenge to the United States of America itself."

For the first time, these terrorists originating from Pakistan killed many foreigners living in India, including Jews and other citizens of the United States and United Kingdom.

"Americans, Britons and Jews living in or visiting India were specifically targeted," Advani added.

The Indian American Task Force believes that it is in America's own national security interest to ensure the elimination of terrorist training camps in Pakistan, the source of these attacks.

"We are not against Pakistan or the people of Pakistan," said New York-based Task Force Joint Coordinator Ram Narayanan.

"In fact, we are pleased that Pakistan now has a democratically elected civilian government and we are seeking ways to help Pakistan's civilian government to eradicate terrorism from its soil," he added.

"The IATF is seeking peaceful means through grass roots lobby work and dissemination of information to work with US lawmakers to find practical solutions to the volatile situation in South Asia following the Mumbai [Images] terrorist attacks. Our goal is to ensure that the interests of the United States and India are protected in the ongoing war against terrorism," added Narayanan.

Image: Congressman Jim McDermott addressing members of the task force.
Photograph: Paresh Gandhi
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