A glimpe of some cases believed to bias crimes againts Pakistani Americans post 9/11.

2001

Waqar Hasan, a Pakistani man who had lived and worked in New Jersey for nearly ten years, lost his life for no other reason than he was a Muslim with a "Middle Eastern" face. An angry young man walked into his convenience store in Dallas, Texas on the night of September 15, 2001, four days after 9-11, and shot the 46-year-old father of four in the face.

In 2001, of the 1,264 deportation, 375 were Pakistanis, the highest number from any of the 24 Muslim countries whose nationals have been required to register with the immigration authorities and on whom the finger of suspicion has rested since the World Trade Centre attacks.

2002

WASHINGTON: Pakistanis have borne the brunt of new restrictive immigration legislation as of the 2,760 people deported by US authorities in 2002, as many as 961 or over 34 percent were Pakistanis

July 15th, 2003:

Two Pakistani students were shot dead near Washington early Tuesday by unidentified gunmen. The friends say the two have been targeted because of their race.

Sair Saeed Butt, 26, and Hammad Chaudhry, 23, both from Lahore, were shot outside Butt's home in Prince George's Country, Maryland, at 3am. Mr Butt died in the ambulance and Chaudhry succumbed to his wounds in the hospital eight hours later.

Sept 6th, 2003:
Mr. Firasat Shah, a resident of Houston since 1995, was shackled and jailed for 27 hours after an intense interrogation by federal agents at the Bush International Airport upon his arrival from Pakistan. Mr. Shah accuses federal agents of intimidation and putting words into his mouth.

October 6th, 2003:

NEW YORK: Nabeel Siddiqui, 24, a computer science major who graduated from NJIT this summer, died Oct 6th, 2003 at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey's University Hospital in Newark following an assault Saturday, September 27th. Nabeel suffered neurological injuries and trauma to his brain. He was attacked on Haxtun Avenue in Orange, NJ, while delivering a pizza to an address there. According to the police report, the resident of that address was not home at the time of the attack and later told police no one there had ordered a pizza. This was believed to be racially motivated murder.