UK to deport terror plot suspects to Pakistan

September 19th, 2009 LONDON - Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has asked Britain to stop blaming Islamabad for the 'home grown' terror plots against the UK. Referring to Britain's lashing out at Pakistan on the liquid bomb plot issue, Qureshi said it was unfair to criticize Pakistan for every terror plot hatched in Britain.

September 7th, 2009 UK report: Gov't releases terror suspectLONDON — Britain's Home Office has released a man from a house-arrest style program only weeks before a hearing in which the government might have been forced to disclose the intelligence that led to his arrest, a newspaper reported Monday. The Times of London said the man — a Libyan-British dual national identified only as AF — was released last week.

August 15th, 2009 LONDON - British intelligence service MI5 has arrested a group of Pakistan-origin terror suspects who were using code words about a wedding in their emails for an al-Qaeda bomb plot, it has emerged. One e-mail referred to a girl called Nadia who would be involved in a nikah, or wedding, between April 15 and 20 this year.

May 30th, 2009 LONDON - The British authorities have agreed to release and deport Pakistan student, Tariq-ur-Rehman, who was arrested in the terror raids carried out on May 8. The Nation reports that Rehman is being released after British Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, agreed to withdraw the charges of threat to the national security labeled against him.

April 22nd, 2009 LONDON - Nine Pakistani men, whose arrest over an alleged terrorist bomb plot in northwest England led to a row between Britain and Pakistan, have been released without charge. They were among 12 men who were arrested by British police April 8 after raids on houses in the cities of Manchester, Liverpool and Clitheroe.

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 22nd, 2009 Britain frees 12 terror suspects detained in raidsLONDON — British police released the last of 12 suspects rounded up in a series of dramatic anti-terror raids earlier this month, failing to charge any of the men, authorities said Wednesday. The news was an embarrassment for British authorities, including Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who claimed at the time of their arrests that police had disrupted "a very big terrorist plot" that had been monitored "for some time." The arrests were rushed in part because a police commissioner inadvertently exposed details of the operation to a photographer outside the prime minister's office.

April 22nd, 2009 9 men caught in UK terror raids up for deportationLONDON — British authorities are seeking to deport nine terrorism suspects arrested earlier this month in a highly publicized police operation, officials said Tuesday. The men were among 12 people arrested as part of an anti-terror sweep across northern England on April 8.

April 22nd, 2009 LONDON - The British Government has been accused of dishonourable behaviour after nine Pakistanis out of 11 arrested in Easter terror raids were released without any charge. The Government said it would not be prosecuting the nine, but still wanted to deport them, following their apprehension in Greater Manchester, Liverpool and Lancashire earlier this month, The Telegraph reported.

April 15th, 2009 LONDON - Maharashtra Home Minister Jayant Patil says intelligence information indicates a plot was hatched 'from abroad' to kill 26/11 terror suspect Ajmal Amir Kasab. He told The Times in comments quoted Wednesday that the alleged plot was the reason additional security measures, such as a bomb-proof corridor, were built in the special courtroom where Kasab is being tried.

April 14th, 2009 LONDON - Pakistan may not accept UK's decision to deport 12 Pakistani students, who were arrested on alleged charges of being involved in the Manchester terror plot. Pakistan High Commission sources have said that Pakistan would like first to be informed on what charges these Pakistanis were arrested, the Dawn reports.

April 13th, 2009 LONDON - Family members of one of the arrested terror plot suspects have rejected their ward's involvement in suspicious activities, saying they came under the scanner due to their deep faith in Islam. The father of one of the arrested students said his son was a victim of anti-Muslim discrimination.

April 10th, 2009 LONDON - Following the 9/11 incident the world saw Afghanistan as the hub of worldwide terrorism, but now the focus has shifted to Pakistan which experts believe is the origin of three-quarters of all terror plots. A report in The Telegraph states that at least three out of every four terror plots in Britain, which are being probed now, have Pakistani roots.

April 10th, 2009 LONDON - Pakistan and Britain asked each other to 'do more' to counter terrorism after British police arrested a dozen men - most of them Pakistani students - for suspected links with a major terror plot. 'We are dealing with a very big terrorist plot - we've been following it for some time,' British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Thursday.

March 25th, 2009 LONDON - Most analysts are of the view that if Pakistan is to make any progress in the comity of nations, it has shut down its terrorist training camps, and prevent the entry of potential insurgents from abroad. British security officials estimate that about 4,000 people have been trained in Pakistan or Afghanistan and now account for three quarters of serious terrorist plots in Britain, and this explains why Pakistan features so prominently in the new counter-terrorism strategy.