Deported Pakistani student returns home

October 1st, 2009 KUWAIT - The Kuwait has decided to deport over 1000 Pakistanis who are living in the country illegally. According to The Dawn, Kuwait's Interior Ministry has said that it would soon send nearly 17,000 illegal migrants people back to their native country.

August 22nd, 2009 LONDON - Two of the ten Pakistani students who were detained during counter-terrorism raids in Manchester and Liverpool earlier this year have flown back home, discontinuing their fight against deportation. Abdul Wahab Khan, 26, and Shoaib Khan, 27 were among ten Pakistanis who were detained in April on national security grounds after officials claimed that they have foiled a major bombing plot by Al-Qaeda.

August 8th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit has said that the US embassy employee, who had pointed gun at a Pakistani cop in Islamabad, could be deported after being declared persona non grata. "The US diplomat who has pointed gun at Pakistani police officer can be deported after declaring him persona non grata," The Nation quoted Basit, as saying.

August 3rd, 2009 LAHORE - A large number of Pakistani students still seek admission in universities abroad and their preferred destination remains the UK, even after they were held and deported by British law enforcement agencies. Nine Pakistani students were held by the agency in the UK on suspicion of terrorism and later released and deported without being charged.

July 4th, 2009 LAHORE - A travel agency scam has stranded as many as 800 Pakistani pilgrims in Saudi Arabia after their travel agents refunded their tickets in Pakistan. The Daily Times quoted one pilgrim, as saying that his visa for staying in Saudi Arabia would expire in a couple of days.

June 11th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - A Pakistani student, who was detained in Britain on suspicion of plotting terrorist attacks, returned home Thursday after withdrawing his appeal against deportation, saying he had suffered "mental torture" and humiliation in a British prison. Tariq ur-Rehman was among 10 Pakistani students taken into custody by the United Kingdom Border Agency in April after they were released by the British police without charge.

May 13th, 2009 LONDON - The ten Pakistani men released without charge after an investigation into an alleged plot to bomb shopping centres in Manchester were part of an al-Qaeda network planning attacks in Britain and should be deported, a tribunal has heard. The men were arrested on April 8 after former Assistant Commissioner Bob Quick entered Downing Street with details of the operation against the men visible under his arm.

May 11th, 2009 KARACHI - Dope-tainted fast bowler Mohammad Asif may be trying to shed his bad boy image by interacting with the Pakistani community in England but a probe committee back home is fuming over the player's absence from the investigation proceedings on his Dubai misadventure last summer. A committee formed by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to probe into Asif's Dubai detention on charges of possessing illegal drugs Monday ordered the pacer to appear before it June 1.

May 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A Class 10 student in the national capital succumbed to her injuries Monday, hours after she was caught in a fire at her home the previous night. Police said they were ascertaining whether the girl had committed suicide or her clothes caught fire while cooking at her home in Mansarovar Park area of north Delhi.

April 23rd, 2009 KOLKATA - A fourth year chemical engineering student of IIT Kharagpur allegedly committed suicide by hanging from the ceiling of his hostel room Thursday. IIT sources said the 22-year-old student - K.

April 23rd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has asked the British government not to deport its citizens who were rounded up on suspicion of links with terrorists, but were later released, as the UK Police could not produce evidence against them. Pakistan Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit said students had to undergo a harsh time behind bars and now it is up to the UK Government to compensate the students.

April 22nd, 2009 LONDON - A lawyer for the three Pakistani men facing deportation after being arrested in anti-terror raids earlier this month says his clients will fight to stay on in Britain. Mohammed Ayub says the men are in Britain lawfully on student visas, are not extremists and have done nothing wrong.

April 21st, 2009 LONDON - Students of Pakistani origin are being granted British visas on the basis of a telephone interview, even as investigation teams probe different aspects of a crackdown involving twelve alleged Pakistan 'student' terrorists. The Telegraph reports that British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has admitted that some visa applications are being decided over the telephone.

January 26th, 2009 LUCKNOW - The two suspected Pakistani terrorists whom the police gunned down near New Delhi on the eve of Republic Day had sneaked into India via Nepal, officials said here Tuesday. 'Of the two, Ahmed Ali, a resident of Bahawalpur in Pakistan, had flown from Karachi to Kathmandu on May 26, 2008, after which he never returned to Pakistan even though his visa expired on July 5, 2008,' Uttar Pradesh Additional Director General of Police Brij Lal told IANS.

January 2nd, 2009 LUCKNOW - A student of the Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur (IIT-K) allegedly committed suicide on the campus Saturday, an official said. 'G. Suman, a student of M.Tech, was found hanging inside a hostel room,' director IIT-K Sanjay Dhande told IANS on phone.