UK councillors’ virtual conference slams India for aggravating plight of Kashmiris on July 30, 2020A virtual conference of UK’s Mayors, Deputy Mayors and Councillors was held to deliberate on Covid-19 and the ongoing yearlong Humanitarian Crisis in Jammu & Kashmir in London. The event was organised in the lead up to unilateral and illegal measures taken by India in occupied Kashmir a year ago on 5 August 2019. The […]
UK Home Office under fire for ‘forcing’ judges not to grant bails amidst pandemic on May 8, 2020The UK Home Office (HO) has been under the fire after it emerged they tried to put pressure on the judges to prevent them from granting bails to the immigration detainees during the COVID-19. An official letter from the senior HO officer to the President of First -Tier Immigration tribunal (FIT) said that the Home […]
Leading British Pakistani consultant haematologist loses battle with COVID-19 on May 8, 2020Leading British- Pakistani cancer consultant Dr Tariq Shafi has lost life battling the killer virus while working on frontline treating patients. Dr Shafi was working as consultant haematologist at Darent Valley Hospital in Dartford, Kent, near London. Dr Shafi completed his MBBC from King Edward Medical College Lahore in 1984 and came to the UK […]
Six of 25 NHS doctors who died from COVID-19 were British Pakistanis on May 4, 2020British Pakistani doctors have the highest number of deaths after contracting the coronavirus while working on frontline saving lives. Official figures show that six out of all the 25 NHS doctors who have tragically died treating the COVID-19 patients were born in Pakistan. Dr Habib Zaidi was the first doctor in the UK to have […]
Muslim MPs for urgent rules against online Islamophobic and racist abuse on May 3, 2020British Muslim MPs are calling for urgent social media regulations to tackle the rising issue of Islamophobic and racist abuse online. They complain of personally experiencing an overwhelming amount of messages of a racist and violent nature on the social media and through emails. Manchester Gorton MP Afzal Khan highlighted the issue and shared the […]
Fighting COVID-19 on frontline: UK govt urged to waive debts of student nurses on May 1, 2020With the UK government providing relief to all sectors in the wake of outbreak of COVID-19, campaigners have urged the government to waive the debts of student nurses who have just joined the national battle against the pandemic. NHS sources confirmed that more than 15,000 student nurses have opted to join NHS frontline staff across […]
UK govt under pressure to offer public apology to families of NHS heroes on April 30, 2020The UK government has been under pressure to apologise to the families of those NHS workers who have died protecting the British people from the COVID-19. Doctors’ associations and medical staff have been advising the government and the Health trusts that employ them about the insufficient Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) available for them to safely […]
95% UK doctors who died from COVID-19 were from BAME communities: study on April 26, 2020Almost 95 percent of the doctors and dentists who died of COVID-19 in the UK after contracting the virus treating patients have come from the black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities, a new study shows. An important study about the coronavirus-related deaths in the UK by three clinicians Simon Lennane, Emira Kursumovic and Tim […]
Prince Charles launches COVID-19 emergency appeal to support South Asian countries on April 25, 2020The Prince of Wales on Friday launched a COVID-19 emergency appeal to help those most vulnerable in South Asia. As the Royal Founding Patron of the British Asian Trust (BAT), Prince Charles announced to set up an emergency appeal to support those who are suffering most across Pakistan, Indian, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka due to […]
UK govt under fire over failure to offer financial support to NHS heroes’ families on April 24, 2020The British government has been the subject of criticism for their failure to provide any financial assistance and support to the families of NHS frontline workers who have lost their lives after contracting the coronavirus. There is growing anger amongst health professionals and their colleagues over the reports that the families of those health workers […]