Arrested Pakistani students in UK: New development

by Nauman Umair Khan | April 23, 2009 at 04:35 pm

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Truly, the best way to defend is offend. After giving tough time to Pakistani students, their families and the whole nation that loves their sons the UK border agency has come up with yet another vague blame, something which they themselves understand perfectly that it's obscure. According to them, one of the detained wasn't enrolled in his college and neither was the course taught in his college which he opted for. I ask, who gave him the visa, who! I think UK border agency's incompetence has shown up, may be that's why they have come up with the new PBS(points-based system). Also, if that very gentleman did, somehow, managed to decieve UKBA and got a student visa then this isn't a sufficient proof to detain someone on charges of terrorism. I mean, I personally know many who were into this stuff ie went to UK for studies, left college, started working, got married, and now they are the UK nationals. So, why just him, why not all of them? And what about the others, on what basis are you(UKBA) deporting them? Why they are still in the custody?

The UK High Commission in Islamabad has clarified that the arrests of ten Pakistani students during raids in UK were according to the laws laid down by British government and it is challengeable in the Especial Immigration Appeal Commission (EIAC) while the apprehended persons are also permitted to make direct contact to their embassy in this respect.

In a statement from UK High Commission in Islamabad, it is stated that UK government reserves rights of arrest and deportation of any immigrant over suspicion of security threat.

During the investigation, it was revealed on to UK officials that one, among ten arrested Pakistani student, was not enrolled in his college and neither was the course taught in his college which he opted for, statement further added.

The investigations, into the reasons leading to Pakistani students’ arrests are underway, it concluded.