The British government had arrested Pakistani students without levelling any charge, said Tariq-ur-Rehman, a student, who returned home on Thursday after his detention in Britain. "British authorities have exaggerated the arrest of these students and claimed that they were hatching a big terror plot, which is a bundle of lies," Tariq said.
While talking to the media with his lawyer Amjad Malik, on his arrival here at the Benazir Bhutto International Airport, following withdrawal of deportation notice by the British Home Office.
"British authorities claimed that the detained students including myself were religious extremists," Tariq said, adding, "I still cannot understand these charges and the reason behind levelling such charges by the British authorities." According to him, the attitude of the British officials was inhuman. "Notorious killers were languishing in the prison where I was kept during detention," he said.
He also talked about, what he said, the "shameful attitude" of jail authorities towards the detained students and said, "We strongly protested against their attitude as they were torturing us by different means." On the occasion, he thanked the Pakistani public and the media for raising the issue of students' detention in the UK.
It is pertinent to note that following the withdrawal of deportation notice by the British Home Office, the Pakistan student, Tariq-ur-Rehman, arrived in Islamabad in the wee hours of Thursday. His family members and relatives were present at the airport to welcome him. Tariq-ur-Rehman, a widower with three children and resident of Miran Shah, had gone to the UK on two years' student visa for higher studies, and decided to return on the condition that the British authorities withdrew his deportation order.