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For Pakistanis in particular, losing access to financial services is neither simply the misfortune of discrimination, nor minor fallout from the U.S. war on terrorism. All over New York City, Pakistanis are proprietors of small businesses: medical practices, bodegas, restaurants and, in Firdous' case, a computer store in Sheepshead Bay. For them, maintaining access to credit and other financial services is a matter of survival.