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Thursday 6 February 2025
More than 100 Indian migrants deported by the U.S. arrive home

By PRABHJOT GILL The U.S. government carries
Associated Press out deportations through
AMRITSAR, India (AP) — A commercial and chartered
U.S. military plane carry- flights, he added.
ing 104 deported Indian The use of the U.S. military
migrants arrived in a north- to return people to their
ern Indian city on Wednes- home country is a relatively
day, the first such flight to new phenomenon that has
the country as part of a started under the Trump
crackdown ordered by the administration.
Trump administration, air- A Pew Research Center re-
port officials said. port said that as of 2022, In-
The Indians who returned dia ranked third, after Mex-
home had illegally entered ico and El Salvador, on the
the United States over the list of country with the larg-
years and came from vari- est number of unauthorized
ous Indian states. immigrants 725,000 living
The move came ahead of in the U.S.
Indian Prime Minister Nar- Recent years have also
endra Modi’s visit to Wash- seen a jump in the number
ington, which is expected of Indians attempting to
next week. U.S. President enter the country along the
Donald Trump and Modi A U.S. military plane which carried deported Indian immigrants is parked at the international U.S.-Canada border. The
discussed immigration in a airport in Amritsar, India, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. Associated Press U.S. Border Patrol arrested
phone call last week and more than 14,000 Indians
Trump stressed the impor- jected to the U.S. deporting ans,” India’s External Affairs stabilizing. on the Canadian border in
tance of India buying more its citizens. Ministry spokesman Randhir The State Department said the year ending Sept. 30,
American-made security “For Indians, not just in the Jaiswal said last month. such deportations send a which amounted to 60% of
equipment and fair bilat- United States but anywhere “If that happens to be the message of deterrence to all arrests along that border
eral trade. in the world, if they are In- case, then we will take other people considering and more than 10 times the
India has cooperated with dian nationals, and they things forward. We will fa- migrating illegally. number two years ago.
the U.S. and said it is ready are overstaying or they are cilitate the return to India,” India’s junior External Affairs Media reports indicate that
to accept the deported In- in a particular country with- Jaiswal said. U.S. Secretary Minister Kirti Vardhan Singh the Indians living in the U.S.
dians after verification. out proper documentation, of State Marco Rubio said told India’s Parliament that without documents are
New Delhi says it is against we will take them back, earlier this week the depor- 519 Indian nationals were mainly from Punjab and
illegal immigration, mainly provided documents are tation flights were an effec- deported to India between Gujarat states, and that In-
because it is linked to sev- shared with us so that we tive way to stem the flow of November 2023 and Octo- dians comprised about 3%
eral forms of organized can verify their nationality illegal migration, which he ber 2024, citing U.S. govern- of all illegal border cross-
crime, and it has not ob- that they are indeed Indi- said is destructive and de- ment data. ings in the U.S. in 2024. q

Rahim Al-Hussaini is named the new Aga Khan, spiritual leader of

Ismaili Muslims

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Ra- Brown University, and has 1957, two weeks after his ghanistan, where he spent
him Al-Hussaini was named served on the boards of grandfather, the Aga Khan tens of millions of dollars in
Wednesday as the new various agencies within III, unexpectedly made him developing local econo-
Aga Khan, spiritual leader the Aga Khan Develop- heir to the family’s 1,300- mies.
of the world’s millions of Is- ment Network, the spiritual year dynasty as leader of Ismailis lived for many gen-
maili Muslims, following the leader’s main philanthrop- the Ismaili Muslim sect. erations in Iran, Syria and
death of his father. ic organization, according Over decades, the late South Asia before also set-
The 53-year-old was desig- to a statement it released Aga Khan evolved into a tling in east Africa, Central
nated as the Aga Khan V, Wednesday. business magnate and a Asia and the Middle East,
the 50th hereditary imam The organization deals philanthropist, moving be- as well as Europe, North
of the Ismaili Muslims, in his mainly with issues of health tween the spiritual and the America and Australia
father’s will. His father died care, housing, education worldly with ease. more recently. They con-
Tuesday in Portugal. and rural economic devel- A defender of Islamic cul- sider it a duty to tithe up to
The Aga Khan is consid- opment. It says it works in ture and values, he was 12.5% of their income to the
ered by his followers to be Karim Aga Khan, his wife over 30 countries and has widely regarded as a Aga Khan as steward.
a direct descendant of the the Begum Salima, and their an annual budget of about builder of bridges between Shenila Khoja-Moolji, an
Prophet Muhammad and is son, Prince Rahim are seen $1 billion for nonprofit de- Muslim societies and the associate professor at
treated as a head of state. in Geneva, Feb. 9, 1972. The velopment activities. West despite or perhaps Georgetown University
The Aga Khan Develop- baby was born October 12, The Aga Khan Develop- because of his reticence who researches Muslim so-
ment Network and the Is- 1971, in Geneva. ment Network said Prince about becoming involved cieties, said Ismailis turn to
maili religious community Associated Press Rahim took a special inter- in politics. the Aga Khan in matters of
announced earlier that His family. est in its work to fight cli- A network of hospitals bear- faith and daily life and of-
Highness Prince Karim Al- Prince Rahim is the eldest mate change and protect ing the Aga Khan’s name is ten refer to him “as a pater-
Hussaini, the Aga Khan IV son of the former Aga the environment. scattered in places where nal figure.”
and 49th hereditary imam Khan. He was educated The late Aga Khan was giv- health care was lacking for Prince Rahim has three sib-
of the Shiite Ismaili Mus- in the U.S., having studied en the title of “His Highness” the poorest, including Ban- lings, two brothers and one
lims, died surrounded by his comparative literature at by Queen Elizabeth in July gladesh, Tajikistan and Af- sister.q