UK has not changed its visa policy for Pakistanis: Simon Butt
01 August, 2005
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| ISLAMABAD: Deputy HC of British High Commission, Simon Butt confers a certificate to a candidate of the one year training course on "Human Resource De |
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ISLAMABAD, August 02 (Online): Simon Butt, British Deputy High Commissioner has said that UK has not changed its visa policy for Pakistanis after 7/7 London bomb blasts.
He was talking to journalists here on Monday at certificate awarding ceremony of the training programme on "Human resources development to support women victims of violence", offered by SACH-Struggle for Change, an NGO, funded by the Department for International Development (DFID) and managed by the British Council through its Gender equality Project (GEP).
"No, not at all, we have not changed our policy for Pakistanis. The British government is changing and modifying the laws in its country to curb the menace of terrorism," he said.
He pledged to support Pakistan in war against terrorism and said that the government of Pakistan had taken an action against the religious seminaries and this would lead to sweep away the terrorist elements from the country.
He dispelled the impression that the British government had pressurized Pakistan for the crackdown on religious seminaries and said that it would help Pakistan to maintain law and order in the country.
Earlier, while addressing at the ceremony, the deputy British High Commissioner said that it is fallacy that violence against women exist in lower and illiterate fraction of society but it is something beyond such boundaries and exist irrespective of class, caste or academic background.
He said that most of the women are unaware of their rights or are kept underprivileged to have less access to justice.
Later, he distributed certificates to the second trainee group, comprised of 25 (13 males and 12 females).
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