Braverman words on British Pakistani men discriminatory: Pakistan

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By William

A Pakistani official says the British Home Secretary’s remarks indicate “an intention to treat British Pakistanis differently”.

Pakistan’s Foreign Office has criticized British Home Secretary Suella Braverman for “discriminatory and xenophobic” comments after she said British Pakistani men “hold cultural values ​​at odds with British values”.

In an interview with Sky News on Monday, Braverman also alleged that British Pakistani men worked in child abuse rings or networks targeting “vulnerable white English girls”.

Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesman Mehnaz Baloch on Wednesday condemned Braverman’s comments which he said painted a “deeply misleading picture indicating an intent to treat and treat British Pakistanis differently”.

Baloch said Braverman had “falsely branded criminal behavior by some individuals as representing the entire community.”

“It fails to take note of the systemic racism and ghettoization of communities and fails to recognize the enormous cultural, economic and political contributions that British Pakistanis continue to make to British society,” Baloch said in her weekly briefing in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad.

A UK Home Office report on child sexual abuse in groups, published in 2020, pointed out that research into the ethnicity of perpetrators is limited and often relies on poor quality data.

However, it highlighted studies showing that white men are the majority of offenders, compared to Asian or black men.

During the interview, Braverman was made aware of the report’s findings, but she went on to say that British Pakistani men “see women in a demeaning and illegitimate way and who pursue an antiquated and downright horrifying approach in terms of the way they behave”.

Braverman’s comments have received backlash on social media, with users saying the comments will mislead the public and “incite violence against people of certain racial characteristics”.

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