Pakistan Is Concerned About Xenophobic Remarks in the UK

Concerns have been raised by Pakistan on the current wave of xenophobic comments made about the Pakistani community in the UK.

In response to questions from the media about the recent wave of xenophobic comments made about the Pakistani population in the UK, Foreign Office Spokesperson Shafqat Ali Khan stated that the friendship between Pakistan and the UK is marked by warmth, friendliness, strong collaboration, and trust.

According to him, this connection has been fostered over many years and is still a top foreign policy goal for Pakistan.

He claimed that the close and complex ties span crucial domains such as people-to-people interactions, education, trade and investment, security, counterterrorism, and parliamentary cooperation.

The strongest connection between the two brotherly nations, according to the spokeswoman, is the 1.7 million-strong British-Pakistani Diaspora.

Accordingly, we are deeply concerned about the growing racist and Islamophobic political and media discourse in the UK that seeks to confuse the despicable acts of a small number of people with the entire 1.7 million British Pakistani Diaspora, the statement said.

According to him, British citizens of Pakistani descent have a long history of advancing the freedom, prosperity, and progress of the United Kingdom.