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...Qul says, acording to Alan Jones, no one has heard from Kirghiz remaining behind in the Pamirs, or the families who returned home, unable to adapt to their new life...
...Qul and his tribe have one recourse under the law. An act of Congress could circumvent the immigration laws and allow the Kirghiz to come to America. Their cause is not hopeless, for the Kirghiz have generated considerable publicity: WGBH recently aired a television program about them; the Boston Globe ran a front-page story about them in December; Reuters News Service has carried stories about them, as has the Associated Press. Indeed, it is because of the AP stories that Qul and his two sons have received an invitation from the Institute for Alaskan Affairs, a non-profit group...
...newspaper a year ago and got in touch with Dupree. She has since won the promise from Alaska's two Senators and one Representative to consider sponsoring the bills that would allow the Kirghiz to come to America. Dudly-Rowley said the State Department recently issued visitors' visas to Qul and his two sons allowing them to come to Alaska at the end of March. Part of the two week visit will be spent talking to land experts about the best locations for the Kirghiz to settle. Qul would then visit those sites...
...trip might dispell any romantic notions Qul has of Alaska. It reached 30-below-zero in Fairbanks last Friday. Actually, Jones says, Qul got the idea of moving to Alaska from a picture book he saw in the Kabul, on one of his annual visits to trade, get supplies, and tell the new government things were fine in the Wakhen. (The last task was crucial, to keep the government from bothering them...
While the prospects are brightening for Qul and his people, several obstacles might still prevent Qul from accepting the invitation to Alaska. Getting permission to leave Pakistan might create the largest problem. It's not a matter of getting their papers in order, but whether they even have papers. The Pakistani Embassy, apparently, is looking into the matter...