The number of expatriate Indians is continuously increasing in America as well as in western countries. They also have a special role in America’s economy. According to a report, it has come to light that American people of Indian origin have become the highest income earning ethnic group in America.
Indians also hold important positions in America’s economic and political system, such as Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Starbucks CEO Laxman Narasimhan. These important people of Indian origin have worked to create a positive environment in favor of India in America, but the same thing is eating Pakistan from within. This is the reason why the increasing population of Indians in America has become a tension for Pakistan experts.
Pakistani American economist Shahid Javed Barki says that the increasing population of America is a threat to Pakistan. Along with being the Vice President of the World Bank, Burki has also been the acting Finance Minister in the Caretaker Government of Pakistan. In an article published in Pakistani newspaper Tribune, Barki said that NRIs are a strength for Modi.
In the Tribune article, Burky also said that Pakistan’s policy makers will have to understand how people of Indian origin, not only in India but also in the western countries at large, will react to the rise of Hindu nationalism by following in the footsteps of Modi. Have been. Burki clearly says that there is no doubt that the increasing population of Indians in America will affect Pakistan.
Spitting venom against India, Barki said that India has enmity with Pakistan. Referring to the US census data, Burkey estimated that currently 40 lakh people of Indian origin live in America, which is 1.4 percent of the American population.
Burki says that the population of Indian immigrants in America has increased the most in the last 100 years. By the year 1920, the population of Americans of Indian origin was 6400. The largest population of Indians in America is present in Seattle, Eastern, New Jersey and California areas.
Burky also pointed out that Indian Sikh Ajay Banga was appointed as the President of the World Bank in 2023 and also described this as the growing power of Indians. The bank’s chief economist and senior vice president of development economics is Indian-origin Indermeet Gill. He told that in the 1980s, there were three people of Pakistani origin as Vice Presidents in the World Bank, one of whom was himself and till then no Indian was there. There wasn’t even a director.
Burke also mentioned Kamala Harris, who is the Democratic Party’s candidate for president. She is also of Indian origin. Kamala Harris is not the first Indian American to contest the presidential election. IT entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and former US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley also ran for the Republican presidential nomination.