60 Pakistanis deported from UK arrive home

South Asian News Agency (SANA) ⋅ September 25, 2012

ISLAMAB (SANA): At least 60 Pakistanis mostly students deported from Britain have arrived on Monday in Islamabad and handed over to Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) for investigations.

According to details, British authorities has accelerated a crackdown against illegal immigrants in Britain and deported sixty Pakistanis for illegal entry .The deportee were sent to country through a special flight here on Monday.

British immigration authorities during last week raided on a “Lahore” hotel situated at Mari lampoon in central London and arrested 11 persons including seven Pakistanis. These all persons were illegally staying in Britain and they were working in “Lahore” hotel, three Afghans and one Indian citizen were also included, sources said.

British authorities have cancelled the visas of hundreds of foreign students including two hundred students of Saudi Arabia who were studying in metropolitan university London. These students are being sent back to their countries, sources said.

President of students union in metropolitan university London said that it is feared that the students in this university and in the other universities in the Britain would be affected from this decision of the British government.

Saudi Cultural attaché in London Abu Alkhel has told the Saudi Arabia government that at present more than 17 thousand Saudi students are studying in Britain and government of Saudi Arabia is bearing the expenses of these students and thousands of Saudi students are under study in Britain on their expenses, adding that a committee has been constituted to review the issue of Saudi Arabian students who were studying in metropolitan university London.

60 Pakistanis deported from UK arrive home