Dear Prime Minister, please grant this family their request.
06/12/2018 Pakistan (BBC) – A Christian man who has spent six years seeking asylum has appealed to the prime minister to allow him and his family to stay in the UK.
Maqsood Bakhsh fled Pakistan in 2012 with his wife and two sons after Islamic extremists threatened to kill him because of his religious beliefs.
They now live in Glasgow and fear their lives would be in danger if they returned to Pakistan.
The Home Office said every asylum case was assessed on its individual merits.
It said officials would contact the Bakhsh family to discuss their circumstances after their case was highlighted by the Church of Scotland.
The catalyst for Mr Bakhsh leaving Pakistan with his wife Parveen, their sons Somer and Areebs – then aged nine and seven – was the murder of two Christians shot outside a court in Faisalabad in 2010.
Pastor Rashid Emmanuel, 32, and Sajid, 24, were accused of writing a pamphlet critical of the Prophet Muhammad that flouted Pakistan’s controversial blasphemy law, which carries the death penalty.
Mr Bakhsh, 50, claims the people responsible for the deaths believed he was in league with the two men and would kill him and his family if they had the chance.
The Home Office has rejected the family’s previous asylum applications and they have now been told they have exhausted the process and have no right to appeal.
However, they plan to launch a legal challenge (Go To Here).
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