Dhaka accepts visa ban move
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By Geoffrey Bew
The http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4654 government yesterday said it would not stand in the way of Bahrain’s decision to stop issuing visas to its nationals.
The news of the ban has sent shockwaves through the more than 90,000-strong http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3194 community in Bahrain, say officials.
“Everybody is very shocked,” Bangladeshi Embassy Charge d’Affaires Saiful Islam told the GDN.
“People have been calling and coming to us to ask what their fate will be. They are very frustrated.”
The embassy last night held an emergency meeting with more than 30 community leaders to discuss the situation.
“We called all the Bangladeshi http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=1064 and not take the law into their hands,” said Mr Islam.
“If anybody has any problem they should go to the police.”He said officials were still waiting for written confirmation of the new policy from the government and whether people already here would have their residence permits renewed.
However, Mr Islam said if either rule was enforced the embassy would have no choice but to accept them.
“We have not received any instruction in that regard,” Mr Islam said of news that people living here whose permits expire will not be renewed.
“If the government takes that decision we will have to respect their decision and the rules of Bahrain.”
Mr Islam said the embassy has been inundated with calls from its people worried about their status in Bahrain following the government’s decision.
He said workers and residents had phoned and visited the embassy in Mahooz seeking clarification on news of the ban.
Interior Minister Shaikh Rashid bin Abdulla Al Khalifa issued the directive late on Monday night.
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From a reader: As the problem of Third World overpopulation and associated issues continues to worsen, nations are going to take increasingly tough stances to control their borders. The Bahrainis, like all the Gulf Arabs, have made a mistake similar to whites in America; just as in the US mestizos have been imported to do menial work, Bangladeshis, as well as Filipinos and other foreigners, serve this function in the Gulf states. http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3041 have, of course, no sense of “white guilt,” and are taking steps that Western nations still are afraid to take…for now. The Bahraini decision, like others elsewhere in the Arab world, show that, despite politically correct claims, concerns about immigration are hardly manifestations of unique white racism but a healthy response to threats to human diversity and national self determination.