Sar

MEMORANDUM ***

Amritpal Kaur Sar, a native of Malaysia and citizen of India, petitions for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (“BIA”) summary affirmance of an immigration judge’s (“IJ”) denial of her applications for asylum and withholding of deportation. Because the transitional rules apply, Kalaw v. INS, 138 F.3d 1147, 1150 (9th Cir.1997), we have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1105a(a). We review both an adverse credibility finding and the denial of asylum for substantial evidence, Lata v. INS, 204 F.3d 1241, 1245 (9th Cir.2000), and we reverse only if the evidence compels a contrary conclusion, INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478, 483-84 , 112 S.Ct. 812 , 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992). We deny the petition for review.

Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s holding that Sar was not persecuted on account of an enumerated ground. See Bolshakov v. INS, 133 F.3d 1279, 1281 (9th Cir.1998) (applicants seeking to prove persecution must show more than merely “that they had been the victim of criminal activity,” and that their harrasers knew of, and pursued them because of, race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular group, or political opinion); Hoxha v. Ashcroft, 319…