Pakistani Man Fears Theives in Ethnic Neighborhood
ODDLY ENOUGH
Jan 22, 9:37 AM
Reuters
By OLIVER CLOZOFF
NEW YORK CITY (AP) - A Pakistani-Punjabi Immigrant believes that men dressed in blue costumes steal what he calls his “personal belongings”.
Mr Aafshaq Khan hails from a city in the most dangerous nation of the world, Pakistan. The city of saints, Multan. Coming from a medium sized village, Mr Khan says he is blessed getting an incidental Work Visa in the United States.
“My people, when they found out I was going to go to Amreeka and work as cab driver, they were happy very much. My mother gave me much kisses, and my brother gave me his farms two most best goats to take to Amreeka”.
However, the suprise that lay for Khan when he got to the United States was much more then what he bargained for.
Living in a small Indian ethnic enclave outside of New York City, Khan says men driving in a giant truck step onto his property and rob him of his belongings every Saturday and Wednesday mornings outside of his dimly lit apartment.
“Yes…(nodding in agreement) You heard rightly. When i first lived here, i had too much things in my small apartment, so i began to put them in disposal bags. I noticed also, that my neighbors were putting their disposal bags outside their doors in the lawn, so i started to do.” Continuing on, Afshaq Khan says what happened to him next, could not compare to anything that happened to him in Multan.
“What kind of people these are? They just come and pick up my disposal bags like it belong to them? How much clothes have i lost? How much family photos?” Khan claims thieves clad in blue city uniforms come in a giant truck into his neighborhood in the wee hours of the monring and take away his belongings he placed on his small curbside apartment lawn.
America continues to be the land of opportunity for many as they come filing in. But taking time to adjust may take longer than what some can stand.
Associated Press writers Mark Mickowskey and Ben Feheim contributed to this report.
