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| Neural |
Posted
on 08-Jan-04 03:16 AM
Nightmare in New Delhi
Harassed passenger warns fellow-Nepalis: avoid New Delhi airport.
The interrogation of senior UML leader Ishwor Pokhrel at New Delhi airport this week grabbed media headlines, but all television cameraman Baikuntha Maskey could do was dash off angry letters about his ordeal.
Maskey was transiting New Delhi airport on his way to the United States with his wife, Bimala, on 8 December. After arriving from Kathmandu on the night flight, they had a six-hour layover while waiting for Air India AI 111 to New York. At about midnight, an Air India staffer with two security officers asked for their passports and rudely accused them of having a forged US visa.
ýThis Air India guy named Sunny was abusive, and didnýt want to listen to a word we said to explain that our visas were duly issued by the US embassy in Kathmandu, that they were valid for five years and we had visited America in 1999 on the same visa,ý the 55-year-old Baikuntha who works for Reuters TV recalled.
From this point on, things started getting even more nasty for the Maskeys. An officer from the US embassy in New Delhi arrived to check his visa and also pronounced it fake. ýHe refused to believe we got the visa in Kathmandu, and didnýt want to call the embassy in Kathmandu to verify,ý Bimala Maskey said. The embassy official then escorted them back past the immigration desk and cancelled the US visas on their passports.
By now, the Maskeys were not just completely mystified about why they were being picked upon, but also getting really worried that they may be detained. The Air India staff and security personnel kept taunting them with threats of three yearsý imprisonment for fake visas. ýThey tried their best to make us feel like criminals,ý Maskey said.
They ended up spending the night at the airportýs transit area to wait for the Royal Nepal Airlines flight the next evening. After 24 gruelling hours at the airport, and when the flight back to Kathmandu was finally boarding, the dreaded Air India staff and security guards returned to demand their passports and harass them again.
After getting back to Kathmandu, the US embassy immediately re-issued the Maskeys B1 and B2 visas valid for five years free of cost. The couple have now resumed their delayed holiday in New York, but not before writing a strongly-worded letter to the US embassy in New Delhi, saying: ýWe would like to draw your attention to the harassment and inconvenience, huge financial loss as well as mental torture we endured.ý The Maskeys have asked that the matter be probed and appropriate action taken against the embassy official. They have also demanded compensation for financial losses and for ýcharacter assassinationý. The letter is copied to the External Affairs Ministry in New Delhi and the Foreign Ministry in Kathmandu.
Says Maskey: ýWe really donýt know why we were victimised like this, but all we want is to warn other Nepalis of the kind of treatment one can expect at New Delhi airport these days.ý
Source: http://www.nepalnews.com.np/ntimes/issue177/nation_2.htm
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| Bhunte |
Posted
on 08-Jan-04 04:41 AM
Neural Dai,
Happy New Year 2004!
Hajur ko hunewala bhavi bhetna janda katai hajur lai prospective SALI haru le dil ka rasta to naya Delhi ma harass ta garenan!! :) Eagerly waiting Sajha invitation hai janta bakhro (or rookh katahar ko tarkari) khana lai...ani suhaudo sali haru chha bhane yeso bachelor bhai haru lai pani nabirsanu hola hai....About avoiding New Delhi airport, that shouldn't affect you. Ankhir ma barsa barsa ma tika thapna janu parne thaun...eh eh
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| Neural |
Posted
on 08-Jan-04 04:55 AM
Bhunte bhai,
I think u din't follow the news well !!!!! pls go thru' it again.. u can see who were harassed, and wat it is actully!!!1 And it's not giving anyone WEDDING info. (0.00%) at all. It may warn u too if by chance u r abt to follow that route...... Is not that??
>>>Eagerly waiting Sajha invitation hai janta bakhro
Lau , u missed it bro. Aba arko, during me son's Janta hai?
H N Y '04 2 u 2 though blated.
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| Bhunte |
Posted
on 08-Jan-04 05:11 AM
Neural dai,
Bad news spread like fire, but good news are hidden like 0.00%. Yesto chhuppe rastam-- katai bihe gareko bholi palta nai chhoro pani pai diyeko? Kya bijuli jasto dai ta..ankhir ma micro electronics na paryo....La double badhai chha. bijuli bhavi lai pani namaste hai... eh eh
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| Bhunte |
Posted
on 08-Jan-04 05:18 AM
Ani dai arko kura hajur ko bundle of joy pyaro bhatij lai yeha tansna nabhulnu hola hai...ehehe
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| Neural |
Posted
on 08-Jan-04 05:20 AM
haina haina.
It was not like the hidden layer of N n/w. It was just like P = MC :))
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| Sadabichar |
Posted
on 08-Jan-04 01:06 PM
"Hajur ko hunewala bhavi bhetna janda katai hajur lai prospective... "
Grammatically above sentence is wrong, isn't it?
Although the writer implies that hajur's 'future bhavi' is actually his future wife not 'bhavi'.
Hajur "hamro hunewala bhavi" bhetna janda katai hajur lai prospective ....
or,
"Hajur ko hunewala srimati (quoting directly!)i bhetna janda katai hajur lai prospective.." might be little bit disrespectful?
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| Bhunte |
Posted
on 08-Jan-04 02:20 PM
Sadbichar, thanks for "byakaran suddikarn".....nepali kura ma tute fute ko hindi jodna prayas gareko ni..
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