London: Britain has won the New Testament with Pakistan, nicknamed the “Tengara” agreement, to quickly remove Pakistani citizens without legal rights to remain in England.
The return agreement was signed by the Secretary of the State Priti Patel and Pakistan Domestic Secretary Yousaf Naseem Khokhar and the State High Commissioner to England, Moazzam Ahmad Khan in London on Wednesday.
The agreement will target Pakistani criminals, failed asylum seekers, overstayers visas, and immigration violators to facilitate them back to their home country.
“I am proud to have signed a new Tengara agreement with our Pakistani friends to return foreign criminals and immigration violators from England to Pakistan,” Patel said.
I did not apologize for removing dangerous foreign criminals and immigration violators who did not have the right to remain in the UK. The British public has enough people who misuse our law and play games so we cannot delete it. This agreement, which I am proud to have signed a contract with our Pakistani friends, showed a new plan for immigration that was in action and conveyed the government, “he said.
“Our new border law will go further and help end the last minute claim and appeal cycle that can delay the transfer,” said Indian cabinet minister.
According to British home office data, Pakistani citizens are the seventh largest number of foreign criminals in prison in England and Wales, with a total of almost 3 percent of the population of foreign national actors, around 2,500 prisoners.
The British government said the new agreement underlined the commitment of the two countries to overcome the problem of illegal migration and significant threats that it caused to the two countries. This agreement also includes sustainable work to “improve and expand the cooperation of British-Pakistan law enforcement”.
The new pact with Pakistan is among a series of return agreements signed by Patels in 15 months under the “new plan for immigration” the government to overcome illegal migration.
From January 2019 to the year ended December 2021, the British Home Office said it had removed 10,741 foreign national violators globally.