LONDON: Pakistan is not likely to agree to the deportation of the 12 Pakistanis arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of being involved in plotting terrorist activities in the UK, if they are not charged of any crime.
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Sources close to the Pakistan High Commission here have said that Pakistan would like first to be informed on what charges these Pakistanis were arrested and then Islamabad would like to have consular access to these students and then alone they believe it would be appropriate to discuss how to handle the case.
They said if the British government did not have any actionable evidence against these youngsters they should be released honourably and allowed to pursue their studies here, 'otherwise it would destroy their careers and lives if they are deported without any rhyme or reason.
They further said that so far nothing had been conveyed by the UK government to the Pakistan High Commission about the antecedents of the arrested men and all that the High Commission here could obtain was six probable names of people taken into custody and that too from the medias highly sketchy accounts.
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