‘Angry and shocked’ arrested Pak students to launch legal battle against UK authorities

September 12th, 2009 WELLINGTON - At least 50 people were arrested as students rioted for a second night in New Zealand's university city of Dunedin, news reports said Sunday. Police donned riot gear as drunken students threw bottles, set fire to furniture in the streets and created general disorder in the three hours after midnight, Radio New Zealand reported.

August 23rd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistani students arrested by Britain Government on charges of violating national security,have accused the latter of ill-treatment during detention. Two of the ten students, Abdul Wahab Khan and Shoaib Khan, returned to Pakistan on Saturday abandoning their legal battle against deportation, The Dawn reports.

August 21st, 2009 UNHCR shocked by migrants left adrift near ItalyGENEVA — The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees is "shocked" over reports of neglect from five African migrants who survived for three weeks in the Mediterranean Sea before being rescued by Italian authorities.

July 30th, 2009 LONDON - British authorities have denied bail to Pakistani students detained earlier this year on national security grounds in simultaneous raids conducted across the country. The Special Immigration Appeals Commission after hearing the bail pleas of two students, Muhammad Ramazan and Ahmad Faraz at the Royal Courts of Justice here, refused to grant bail in all seven cases levied against them, The Daily Times reports.

July 18th, 2009 LONDON - Britain has withdrawn deportation orders on two of the nine Pakistani students who were detained on national security grounds earlier this year. Both students, Sultan Sher and Janas Khan belong to the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) in Pakistan and were arrested from Leeds and Milton Keynes respectively.

June 28th, 2009 SYDNEY - In a fresh attack, two Indian students were assaulted with a beer bottle in Sydney. Two teenagers have been arrested for the attack.

June 19th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Australia's Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Chris Evans, today met representatives from the Indian community in Melbourne to listen directly to their views on the racial attacks involving Indian students. The Minister reassured the Indian community that the Australian Government welcomes students from India and values their decision in coming to Australia to further their studies.

June 12th, 2009 MELBOURNE - In yet another attack on Indians in Australia, a 22-year-old student was allegedly assaulted by a teenager in Adelaide's busy Rundle Mall. According to the police, the attack took place on Thursday.

June 3rd, 2009 CANBERRA - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's senior national security adviser, Duncan Lewis, has been asked to head a new task force to examine and respond to race-related violence against Indian students in the country. The task force conducted its first meeting on Tuesday night.

June 1st, 2009 LONDON - Indian students at Oxford University Monday joined in the growing protests over racist attacks on their counterparts in Australia, saying they are baffled by the failure of Australian authorities to take stern measures. Indian students at the University of Oxford strongly deplore the violent attacks on students in Australia.

May 21st, 2009 LONDON - After the arrest of 11 Pakistan students for allegedly plotting terror attacks in Britain, it was revealed that those students had entered Britain on false student visas, but it seems that it was only a part of a larger conspiracy, as it has now been revealed that thousands of young Pakistan civilians had exploited a hole in Britain's immigration defences to enroll themselves as students at a network of fraud colleges. The Times has unearthed a major scam in which fraudsters have earned millions of dollars by luring students from Pakistan to get admission in sham colleges in Britain.

May 13th, 2009 LONDON - All the 10 Pakistani students who were arrested last month from different parts of London on suspicion of plotting bomb attack across Britain were actually part of Al-Qaeda's network, a British official has claimed. Robin Tam QC for the Home Secretary told the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) in London that all the so-called students, who were arrested, had links with Al-Qaeda.

April 21st, 2009 LONDON - The police remand of the 10 Pakistani students detained on the suspicion of being involved in Manchester terror plots, which expires on April 22, is likely to be extended by another 14 days. According to the Dawn, UK authorities are only sharing partial information on the progress of the investigations with Pakistan High Commission officials.

April 11th, 2009 LONDON - A UK-based Islamic hate cleric has said that the Gordon Brown Government's crackdown on visa regulations is meaningless because terrorists have "101 ways to enter the country". Anjem Choudary, a former right-hand man to firebrand preacher Omar Bakri, said there was an influx of people from the Indian subcontinent to Britain, many of whom were angry about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

April 10th, 2009 LONDON - The 10 Pakistani nationals arrested in the United Kingdom for planning to carry out terror strikes in the country may have exploited the shortcomings in the visa regime as described by a British minister as "the major loophole in Britain's border controls." This is the first time Pakistanis on student visas have been arrested on such serious charges. Sources said that the arrests of 12 men in the north west of England on Wednesday were linked to a suspected plan to launch a devastating attack this weekend.