Minister scolds MPs over campaign to build airport in Kashmir while voting against Heathrow expansion
A London MP who was criticised for backing a campaign to build an airport in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir after voting against Heathrow expansion has defended her decision.
A group of 20 cross-party politicians wrote a letter to the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, asking him to fund the construction of an airport in Mirpur.
The campaign, launched by Bedford’s Labour MP Mohammad Yasin, called for better air links to the city because British Kashmiris were put off from visiting because of the 80 mile drive from Islamabad.
The issue is a “very important matter to the Kashmiri diaspora”, they said in a joint letter.
But critics pointed out that almost half of the MPs who had signed the letter had either previously voted against or attacked Heathrow’s plans to build a third runway in west London.
Where's the threshold for the media to be held to account for the hate and anger and damage they are causing this planet? Everything mainstream seems to be so far right and you have to follow some more niche roads to find reality and humanity.
Where's the threshold for the media to be held to account for the hate and anger and damage they are causing this planet? Everything mainstream seems to be so far right and you have to follow some more niche roads to find reality and humanity.
I really have no idea where all this hate has come from.
Is it hate? My views are based on common sense.
I was not referring to you Tony, I was referring to the current Media narrative.
The negativity is non-stop.
Do you think that maybe it is because there is so much ammunition?
Football stadium bomb plotter wants to stay in UK ‘because Albanian gangs will kill him’
A convicted terrorist who once planned to bomb a football stadium is appealing against his deportation because he would be “executed for revenge” by rival gangsters if he was returned to Albania.
Maksim Cela, 59, travelled to the UK on a fake passport to be with his family after serving 23 years in prison for killing a policeman and other gang-related activities in the Balkan country, an immigration tribunal heard.
The Albanian claimed “terrifying gang groups” would come after him to resolve a “blood feud” if he was not allowed to stay in Britain. Home Office lawyers say he is a “violent terrorist” and should be deported.
At an upper-tier immigration tribunal in central London on Monday, Cela said he had been wrongly convicted of the crimes, and that his prosecution had been politically motivated.
Lawyers for the Home Office said he invented the story after learning that his serious offending meant he would not be able to claim asylum.
Cela claimed he used to be a businessman, running a car dealership business in Germany, as well as having worked in a dental clinic and a hospital.
But the tribunal heard he was a “violent terrorist” who had planned to detonate a bomb at a 12,000-seat football stadium in 2000. After the plot came to light the following year, an Albanian court jailed him for five years.
He was sentenced to 25 years in September 2006 for “participation in criminal organisations”, the murder of a police officer, and the manufacture and illegal possession of weapons and ammunition, the tribunal was told.
He was released in December 2022, having served more than 23 years of the sentence overall.
In December 2022 he left Albania for Spain, travelled to Italy and then flew to the UK on what he admitted was a false passport, arriving at Heathrow in January 2023.
When he was initially interviewed by the Home Office, Cela claimed that “three terrifying gang groups” were “coming after” him and his family because he was a member of the “Lushnje gang”, the tribunal heard.
A letter to the Home Office, written on his behalf, said rival gang members would “execute him for revenge” if he returned to Albania.
Cela has since changed his story, Home Office lawyers have said, claiming he was never really a member of the gang but had been set up. “It was politically motivated,” said Cela, who represented himself at the hearing and spoke through an interpreter. “I was merely a businessman.”
‘Exaggerated the threat’ The Albanian told the tribunal there had been four attempts to kill him while he was in prison. The Home Office said he had exaggerated the threat from rival gangs, and could get protection from the Albanian authorities or relocate to another area of the country should he be deported.
Paul Skinner, representing the Home Office, asked Cela: “It’s right that you are someone who does and says whatever you want in order to get what you want, isn’t it? You really want to be in the UK to be with your wife and daughter, and you are willing to do whatever it takes in order to stay.
“The Albanian state is taking steps to obviate the risks that Mr Cela may face.”
Cela’s asylum claim was rejected by a judge at the first-tier immigration tribunal, but a separate claim that his life was at risk from rival gangs was accepted.
His claim was based on article three of the European Convention on Human Rights, which prohibits “torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment”.
After an appeal by the Home Office, a panel of judges set aside the ruling, finding that there had been an “error of law”. The upper-tier tribunal will now make a decision on whether Cela can stay in Britain.
Where's the threshold for the media to be held to account for the hate and anger and damage they are causing this planet? Everything mainstream seems to be so far right and you have to follow some more niche roads to find reality and humanity.
Migrants overstaying visas account for over a third of asylum claims
Call for protection to stop parents being ‘punished’ over Channel crossings
Campaigners are calling for stronger protections to prevent parents being punished for trying to seek sanctuary with their children under a new offence over English Channel crossings.
Those who endanger or risk another life at sea during the dangerous journeys could face five years in jail as part of Government plans to curb crossings and crack down on people smugglers.
According to the Home Office, the offence is to stop more people being crammed into unsafe boats and would apply to those involved in physical aggression and intimidation, as well as anyone who resists rescue.
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A London MP who was criticised for backing a campaign to build an airport in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir after voting against Heathrow expansion has defended her decision.
A group of 20 cross-party politicians wrote a letter to the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, asking him to fund the construction of an airport in Mirpur.
The campaign, launched by Bedford’s Labour MP Mohammad Yasin, called for better air links to the city because British Kashmiris were put off from visiting because of the 80 mile drive from Islamabad.
The issue is a “very important matter to the Kashmiri diaspora”, they said in a joint letter.
But critics pointed out that almost half of the MPs who had signed the letter had either previously voted against or attacked Heathrow’s plans to build a third runway in west London.
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A convicted terrorist who once planned to bomb a football stadium is appealing against his deportation because he would be “executed for revenge” by rival gangsters if he was returned to Albania.
Maksim Cela, 59, travelled to the UK on a fake passport to be with his family after serving 23 years in prison for killing a policeman and other gang-related activities in the Balkan country, an immigration tribunal heard.
The Albanian claimed “terrifying gang groups” would come after him to resolve a “blood feud” if he was not allowed to stay in Britain. Home Office lawyers say he is a “violent terrorist” and should be deported.
At an upper-tier immigration tribunal in central London on Monday, Cela said he had been wrongly convicted of the crimes, and that his prosecution had been politically motivated.
Lawyers for the Home Office said he invented the story after learning that his serious offending meant he would not be able to claim asylum.
Cela claimed he used to be a businessman, running a car dealership business in Germany, as well as having worked in a dental clinic and a hospital.
But the tribunal heard he was a “violent terrorist” who had planned to detonate a bomb at a 12,000-seat football stadium in 2000. After the plot came to light the following year, an Albanian court jailed him for five years.
He was sentenced to 25 years in September 2006 for “participation in criminal organisations”, the murder of a police officer, and the manufacture and illegal possession of weapons and ammunition, the tribunal was told.
He was released in December 2022, having served more than 23 years of the sentence overall.
In December 2022 he left Albania for Spain, travelled to Italy and then flew to the UK on what he admitted was a false passport, arriving at Heathrow in January 2023.
When he was initially interviewed by the Home Office, Cela claimed that “three terrifying gang groups” were “coming after” him and his family because he was a member of the “Lushnje gang”, the tribunal heard.
A letter to the Home Office, written on his behalf, said rival gang members would “execute him for revenge” if he returned to Albania.
Cela has since changed his story, Home Office lawyers have said, claiming he was never really a member of the gang but had been set up. “It was politically motivated,” said Cela, who represented himself at the hearing and spoke through an interpreter. “I was merely a businessman.”
‘Exaggerated the threat’
The Albanian told the tribunal there had been four attempts to kill him while he was in prison. The Home Office said he had exaggerated the threat from rival gangs, and could get protection from the Albanian authorities or relocate to another area of the country should he be deported.
Paul Skinner, representing the Home Office, asked Cela: “It’s right that you are someone who does and says whatever you want in order to get what you want, isn’t it? You really want to be in the UK to be with your wife and daughter, and you are willing to do whatever it takes in order to stay.
“The Albanian state is taking steps to obviate the risks that Mr Cela may face.”
Cela’s asylum claim was rejected by a judge at the first-tier immigration tribunal, but a separate claim that his life was at risk from rival gangs was accepted.
His claim was based on article three of the European Convention on Human Rights, which prohibits “torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment”.
After an appeal by the Home Office, a panel of judges set aside the ruling, finding that there had been an “error of law”. The upper-tier tribunal will now make a decision on whether Cela can stay in Britain.
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