ROCHDALE, January 10: APL (Association of Pakistani Lawyers), a team of Pakistani origin lawyers, Solicitors, Barristers, and Judges in UK has taken serious note of former Home Secretary, Jack Straw’s comments that Pakistani men specifically target young white women as they are ‘easy meat’ and termed them unacceptable as the facts do not match with the figures. APL commented that first igniting an unhelpful debate on ‘niqab’ and now use of ‘Nick Griffin’s style language by stalwart of labour leader is disproportionate and an effort to woo his voters instead of helping the Govt to combat illicit use of drugs, and gang culture in main stream land. APL has welcomed remarks of Rt. Hon. Keith Vaz and other Pakistani origin members of Parliament  including Lord Ahmed, snubbing stereotyping of a serious issue which is increasingly becoming a common problem and a joint effort is needed to combat this menace in the wake of increasing far right activities

APL earlier condemned in the strongest words the sexual exploitation of young British girls by criminal gangs, and demanded that those involved in such heinous crimes must be brought to books and a stern action must be ensued against perpetrators and those gang masters to send a message of deterrent to curb such practice and the mindset to avoid exploitation of young minds. APL observed that criminals must be treated as criminals not as ‘Pakistani’ and or ‘white’ criminals and there are 1 million Pakistanis in UK who  condemn such practice and do not condone any such activity openly or silently and majority of it is against exploitation of the kind revealed in the report. Pakistani culture and community promote lawful matrimonial relationships instead of ‘grooming’ for unlawful actions.  APL warned that linking criminal activity to a particular race, colour and nationality may be counterproductive and may attract verbal and physical abuse against those communities and may act as a tool to be exploited by hard-line political groups who play politics on racial tensions, and anti community cohesion steps threatening the multiculturalism which is the fine fabric of British Society. Demonising any particular community without any evidence of ever seeking that community’s help to address the issue may be disproportionate at this juncture. APL observed that child protection must be taken seriously and a ‘zero tolerance’ must be shown against anyone who is involved in such practice and Police including other agencies must consider it “an absolute priority”, as we expect all agencies to treat these crimes extremely seriously working together to address problems in individual communities. APL advocating the importance of marriage as an institution held that restricting other communities towards governmental desires promote illicit actions, which are condemnable & policy makers must consider in order to improve community relations by enhancing consultation levels, and emancipation in order to avoid dangers to the community relationships.

APL has demanded the Prime Minister David Cameron for a home affairs select committee probe & report to reach to the bottom of the baseless allegation(s) on a particular community and it assured maximum cooperation to the Govt to deal with the issue.