Pak rejects UK Home Secretary Braverman's 'discriminatory & xenophobic' remarks

Pakistan on Wednesday rejected UK Home Secretary Suella Bravermans ldquodiscriminatory and xenophobicrdquo remarks targeting BritishPakistani menBraverman told Sky News in an interview last week that BritishPakistani men ldquohold cultural values at odds with British valuesrdquoResponding to Bravermans remarks Foreign Office FO spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said that they painted a ldquohighly misleading picture signalling the intent to target and treat British Pakistanis differentlyrdquoShe said the British home secretary had ldquoerroneously branded criminal behaviour of some individuals as a representation of the entire communityrdquoldquoShe Braverman fails to take note of the systemic racism and ghettoisation of communities and omits to recognise the tremendous cultural economic and political ontributions that BritishPakistanis continue to make in British societyrdquo Baloch said at a press conference hereIn an interview about the UK governments plans to tackle child sexual abuse Braverman spoke about ldquothe predominance of BritishPakistani males who hold cultural values totally at odds with British valuesrdquoAlso readMumbaiAhmedabad High Speed Rail Only 14 percent work completed in Maha against 3293 in GujaratldquoBritishPakistani men see women in a demeaned illegitimate way and pursue an outdated and frankly heinous approach to the way we behaverdquo Braverman commented after she was informed that a Home Office report in 2020 concluded that most child sexual abuse gangs are made up of white men under the age of 30 and that there was not enough evidence to suggest members of grooming gangs were disproportionately more likely to be Asian or BlackBraverman pointed to reports from Rotherham town which was rocked by a child sexual exploitation scandal in which five BritishPakistani men were convicted of grooming raping and exploiting young girlsBritish Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday unveiled plans for a new task force to go after grooming gangsThe new Grooming Gangs Taskforce will involve specialist officers parachuted in to assist police forces with live child sexual exploitation and grooming investigations for stricter action against those who groom children for sexual abuseSunaks announcement came a day after his Indianorigin Home Secretary said that the perpetrators of such crimes are ldquogroups of men almost all British Pakistanirdquo but authorities have turned a ldquoturn blind eye to these signs of abuse out of political correctness out of fear of being called racists out of fear of being called bigotedrdquoBritain is home to the largest Pakistani community of about 15 million most of them as secondgeneration citizens who were born and brought up in the UKThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever