ISLAMABAD: British High Commissioner to Pakistan Philip Barton on Wednesday said the British government had nothing to do with a tax evasion examination against the London-based Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) boss Altaf Hussain.
Talking at a workshop titled "The Future of UK-Pakistan Relations: A Departing Perspective", Barton said the body of evidence against Altaf rested with the London police, which is exploring charges against the MQM supremo. On Pakistan's future, Barton said he trusted the nation was pushing ahead in four significant zones – "vote based system, security, economy and provincial connections". Sharing measurements which depict a 48 percent decrease in terrorism-related episodes, the British agent saluted the boldness of Pakistan security powers over their accomplishments in diminishing terrorism.
"On account of the UK-upheld Counter-terrorism Associated Prosecution Reform Initiative, conviction rates in terrorism cases have expanded from 5% to more than half in Punjab and from 3% to more than 30% in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa," he said. The British emissary contended that with vote based system and a quickly recuperating economy, individuals in Pakistan now had more space to consider the future, demographic circumstance, ecological and monetary difficulties.
The London Metropolitan Police on Monday had educated MQM boss Altaf Hussain that his safeguard conditions, in a progressing IRS evasion test, had been uprooted as there was lacking proof to bring a criminal accusation against him.
The tax evasion examination was propelled after the Metropolitan Police found a huge number of pounds amid two attacks — one on a MQM office and another on Altaf Hussain's home in London. The attacks were led regarding the examination concerning Dr Imran Farooq's homicide.
Barton said, "I leave Pakistan one week from now toward the end of my residency as high magistrate, after my two years here, additionally having initially gone to the nation over 20 years back. Be that as it may, I leave more idealistic than any other time in recent memory about the fate of the nation. I trust the nation is currently on a positive direction in four significant ranges – majority rule government, security, the economy and provincial connections. "I salute the courage of the Pakistan military – and their regular citizen partners in the police and other law requirement offices – as they complete the exceptionally troublesome undertaking of handling terrorism the nation over."
He sketched out the positive part the UK had in Pakistan before, and the organization it might want to proceed later on. The British high chief likewise contended that individuals in Pakistan now have more space to consider the more drawn out term future, including challenges around demography, nature and the economy.
Discussing Pakistan and UK ties, he said, "I am exceptionally certain about the future relationship between the UK and Pakistan. We are obviously connected by history. One of the highlights of my time in Pakistan was to visit the Regimental Museum of the Punjab Regiment – my granddad's regiment in Mardan." "However it is the general population to individuals interfaces that speak to the present and what's to come. That is the reason the organization between the UK and Pakistan is persevering,"
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