Pakistan comes under scrutiny as UK cracks down on ‘asylum abuse’

• ‘Cooperation’ with UK authorities has kept Islamabad off visa ban list so far • Rejection rate of asylum claims by Pakistanis at 70pc, but very few deportations • Shadow home secy pushes for tougher measures LONDON: As the UK bans visas to a handful of countries that have high asylum cases, Pakistan has come under renewed scrutiny after questions were raised about the low number of deportations. The development comes days­ after the UK put an ‘emergency brake’ on visas for the first time on...

By [email protected] (Our Correspondent)