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| September 16, 2012 | UK deports 'illegal' immigrants to Pakistan on chartered flights | | London: The United Kingdom has, in seven chartered flights, deported
to Pakistan 350 to 400 Pakistanis whose pleas to remain in Britain have been refused. The UK Border Agency (UKBA) refused to discuss such flights until they landed. These deportees are over and above those repatriated regularly
under the MoU on managed migration between the two countries. Under the MoU, the maximum of 120 persons can be deported per month, reports the Daily Times. The
British Home Office said it only removes people who face no risk of torture, but
Freedom From Torture Freedom and Human Rights Watch both argue that the government
has severely underestimated this possibility when it comes to returned Pakistanis,
many of them have been routinely arrested by the Federal Investigation Agency
(FIA). The Association of Pakistani Lawyers (APL), a team of Pakistani origin
lawyers in the UK , has expressed concerns over the chartered flights of deportees
and swift "travel documents" to facilitate deportations. APL Chairman Barrister
Amjad Malik expressed his reservations on MoU between both the countries and demanded
that the said arrangements and "enforced repatriation" must be made public. "Interior
Minister Rehman Malik must impress his British counterpart for regularisation
of those immigrants, especially students who are affected due to sudden closure
of their colleges to compensatory regularise them rather than their arrests, detention,
repatriation, and threats of prosecution via chartered flight," he added. Barrister
Malik feared that such "foggy" arrangements and "shady" deals may promote illegal
actions and torture and Pakistan may directly or indirectly use torture to extract
information on behalf of third parties, as has allegedly happened in the case
of British permanent resident Bin Yam Mohammad and Rangzeb Ahmed over which courts
have criticised Pakistani government, and intelligence agencies. | |
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