MARCH 2018 www.Asia Times.US PAGE 1 www.Asia Times.US Globally Recognized Editor-in-Chief: Azeem A. Quadeer, M.S., P.E. MARCH 2018 Vol 9, Issue 3 FedEx Stubborn about Discounts NRA FedEx Corp. is maintaining discounts for some services at FedEx Office, according members of the National Rifle Associa- to company and NRA websites. NRA of- tion, even as calls for a boycott mount on ficials also didn’t immediately respond to social media after a deadly school shoot- a request for comment. ing in Florida. Delta Air Lines Inc. and United Conti- The courier said it “has never set or nental Holdings Inc. are among compa- changed rates for any of our millions of nies that cut ties with the NRA following customers around the world in response online calls to boycott the gun lobbying to their politics, beliefs or positions on group. Symantec Corp., owner of Lifelock issues.” The NRA is one of hundreds of and Simplisafe Inc.; rental car companies organizations in its alliance programs, Hertz Global Holdings Inc. and Avis Bud- FedEx said Monday in its first public com- get Group Inc. and insurer MetLife Inc. all ment on the matter. have cut ties to the NRA. Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. were among companies Since Sunday, the #BoycottFedEx hashtag being pressured Monday on social media has been included in more than 700 posts to drop the lobbying group’s streaming on Twitter, including one by Marjory TV channel. Stoneman Douglas high school student David Hogg that has been shared more For a look at why Delta, Hertz have more than 13,000 times. Hogg — who now has to lose from NRA ties, click here more than 330,000 followers on Twitter — and peers at Stoneman Douglas have Supporters of the NRA, however, were gained national attention as advocates for mounting their own campaigns. Georgia gun-law reforms since a Feb. 14 attack at Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagle, a Re- the school left 17 students and teach- ers dead. YOU WILL BE MISSED FedEx said its views on firearms RIP SRIDEVI policy differ from the NRA’s. While the company said it supports the constitutional right MOVING TO TEXAS? of U.S. citizens to own firearms, sub- ject to appropriate background checks, it supports keeping assault rifles out of civilian hands. publican who is running for governor, on Monday threatened to kill tax legislation ‘Inherent Danger’ that would benefit Delta unless it rein- Assault rifles and large capacity maga- states its relationship with the NRA. A bill REALTOR / INVESTOR zines are “an inherent danger to schools, before the state’s General Assembly would workplaces and communities when such exempt jet fuel from sales tax, benefiting weapons are misused,” FedEx said in the the airline. statement. “We therefore support restrict- ing them to the military.” “Corporations cannot attack conservatives and expect us not to fight back,” Cagle Shares of the Memphis, Tennessee-based wrote on Twitter. company rose less than 1 percent to We have our agents ready to help you in $254.51 at the close in New York. They Delta said Saturday it would end an NRA Dallas/Fort Worth were unchanged in late trading, following contract for discounted rates on flights to the company’s statement on the NRA. the group’s annual meeting. The airline Houston also asked to have its name removed from Austin FedEx is part of the NRA Business Al- the NRA’s meeting website San Antonio liance and offers discounts through its FedEx Advantage program for shipping Time.com SALE / PURCHASE OR RENT by FedEx Ground and FedEx Express and www.Asia Times.US DALLAS-HOUSTON PAGES DALLAS-HOUSTON PAGES PAGE 2 PAGE MARCH 2018 MARCH 2018 www.Asia Times.US PAGE 3 BOARD OF ADVISORS - CHICAGO REGION www.Asia Times US Iftekhar Shareef Sunil Shah Sher M. Rajput Waliuddin Nasir Jahangir Syed Hussaini Talat Rashid www.Asia Times US Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ISSN 2159-9645 and his family visit to India Editor-in-Chief Canadian Prime Minister Jus- & tin Trudeau and his family, who Publisher arrived in India are on their first state visit. Trudeau is in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state - Gujarat However, Modi was markedly absent from receiving his Cana- dian counterpart unlike the visits of other world leaders like Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2014, Japa- nese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2017 and Israel Prime Minister Azeem A. Quadeer, P.E. Benjamin Netanyahu in January, Licensed Professional 2018. Modi also held a grand road- Engineer in the States show in Gujarat, welcoming the of Texas, Indiana and leaders and accompanying them Illinois during their stay in his home state. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is [email protected] instead visiting Karnataka, which *********** will go to polls in a few months. Finance and Marketing Chief Modi, whose foreign policy is Madam Sheela marked by an emphasis on form- welcome tweet so far, a courtesy he clear that he “would not meet any 1984. MadamSheela1@gmail. ing a personal bond with world normally reserves for all the visit- Khalistani sympathisers”. com leaders and who is known to have ing dignitaries after he became the Also in 2017, Canada’s High Com- walked (or driven) the extra mile Prime Minister of India in 2014. The question that arises now is missioner to India had to apolo- Advertisements to personally receive them dur- whether, a wary India, is down- gise after India reacted sharply MadamSheela1@gmail. ing their visit to India, gave his Now all eyes are set on Trudeau’s grading Justin Trudeau because when a former CRPF officer was com Canadian counterpart Trudeau a visit to Punjab. However, there are of his government’s support to initially denied entry at Vancou- massive snub by sending a junior no clear indications so far whether pro-Khalistan elements among the ver airport on the grounds that Asia Times US is minister to receive him. or not Punjab Chief Minister Am- Sikhs in the Canadian society. As he had served a government that published monthly When Trudeau landed in New arinder Singh will host the visiting things stand, India’s uneasiness is engaged in “terrorism, systematic Copyright 2018 Delhi, he was welcomed by prime minister in the holy city of not unfounded. or gross human rights violations, All rights reserved as to Minister of State for Agriculture Amritsar when the dignitaries will or genocide”. the entire content and Farmer’s Welfare Gajendra S go to the Golden Temple. When Justin Trudeau was elected However, according to a re- Shekhawat. Canada’s Prime Minister in 2015, port in NDTV, top government Asia Times US does not CM Amarinder Singh’s annoyance he inducted four Indian faces - all sources have strongly dismissed necessarily The scenario was not good at with the Canadian government is Sikhs - in his multi-cultural Cabi- speculation, mostly in the Cana- endorse views Agra in Uttar Pradesh where apparent. net. In a first, the plum portfolio dian media, that Prime Minister expressed by the authors Trudeau and his family went to of Canada’s Defence Minister was Narendra Modi’s absence is a snub in their articles see the iconic Taj Mahal either. Amarinder had publicly refused to given to a Sikh, Harjit Singh Saj- for Justin Trudeau amid India’s Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi meet Canada’s first Sikh Defence jan. concerns over Sikh radicalism in Adityanath was not available to Minister, Harjit Singh Sajjan, who It soon emerged that some of Canada and support for a separate receive the visiting prime minister. was born in Punjab’s Hoshiarpur the Trudeau’s colleagues in the Khalistan state. district, when he visited the state Canadian Cabinet allegedly had It can be recalled that when Prime in April 2017. No minister or ties with Khalistan supporters. Prime Minister Narendra Modi Minister Narendra Modi visited senior officer of the Punjab gov- Trudeau himself attended a Khalsa need not accompany a visiting dig- Canada in 2016, Trudeau was ernment either went to welcome Day event in Toronto where nitary everywhere, said sources; he absent from the airport to receive Sajjan or even accompany him Khalistan flags and the portrait of was not present even when Iranian him. Sources justify that Modi did during the visit. former Khalistani militant leader President Hassan Rouhani visited not exactly break any protocol by Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale were Hyderabad refusing to receive the Canadian Amarinder had accused Sajjan displayed. Canadian Prime Minister Justin PM at the Delhi airport this time and other ministers of Punjabi Trudeau will meet with Prime around. origin in the Trudeau govern- The Ontario Assembly, dominated Minister Narendra Modi for bilat- ment of links to radical elements by Trudeau’s Liberal Party, passed eral talks in New Delhi. Narendra Modi who is active demanding a separate Sikh state a resolution in 2017 condemning on Twitter also did not post any of Khalistan. Amarinder made it the “genocide” of Sikhs in India in MARCH 2018 www.Asia Times.US PAGE 4 DALLAS-HOUSTON PAGES DALLAS-HOUSTON BOARD OF ADVISORS - DALLAS REGION www.Asia Times US Shawkat Dr. Basheer Ahmed Dr. Shamsa Qureshi Mohammed DALLAS-HOUSTON PAGES DALLAS-HOUSTON MARCH 2018 www.Asia Times.US PAGE 5 Dr. Basheer Ahmed received appreciation letter from Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson www.Asia Times.US DALLAS-HOUSTON PAGES DALLAS-HOUSTON PAGES PAGE 6 PAGE MARCH 2018 MARCH 2018 www.Asia Times.US PAGE 7 A message from DALLAS-HOUSTON PAGES DALLAS-HOUSTON Dr. Asim Shah Delivered check to Mayor and Chief of police department City of Richardson behalf of Islamic Society Of North Texas and DFW Muslim community and delivered cheque of 20k for the family of slain officer of RPD late officer David -Sher Dr.