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Many early Pakistanis came to the UK as scholars and studied at major British institutions, before later returning to British India. An example of such a person is Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan. Jinnah came to the UK in 1892 and began an apprenticeship at Graham's Shipping and Trading Company.
Anjem Choudary - British Pakistani radical and former head of Islam4UK, which was proscribed by the UK Government in 2010; Altaf Hussain - British Pakistani politician and fugitive, wanted terrorist in Pakistan; one of the founders and for many years lead the Karachi based Muttahida Qaumi Movement
Many Pakistani emigrants relocated to work in towns like Rochdale, Newcastle, Bristol, High Wycombe, Birmingham, Dewsbury, Huddersfield, and Bradford. [54] Consequently, many work permits for Britain were awarded to the displaced population of Mirpur. [55] Close to 50,000 Pakistanis from Mirpur emigrated to northern England between 1965 and 1970.
The foreign-born population of the United Kingdom includes immigrants from a wide range of countries who are resident in the United Kingdom.In the period January to December 2016, there were groups from 23 foreign countries that were estimated to consist of at least 100,000 individuals residing in the UK (people born in Poland, India, Pakistan, the Republic of Ireland, Germany, Bangladesh ...
In October 2013, the UK Parliament reported that the number of ethnic minority MPs stood at 27, or 4.2% of the total. ... British Pakistani: Conservative: Priti Patel ...
In the British Pakistani category, 631,171 (56.1 percent) were born in the UK, and 443,414 (39.4 percent) were born in Pakistan, accounting for 95.5 percent of the group. For the British Bangladeshi category, 232,089 (51.9 percent) were born in the UK, and 202,626 (45.3 percent) were born in Bangladesh , accounting for 97.1 percent of the group.
Martin Bashir – British journalist of Pakistani descent, currently with ABC's 20/20 [105] Hassan Ghani – Scottish [106] [107] broadcast journalist and documentary filmmaker, based in London; Mishal Husain – anchor for BBC World [108] Faris Kermani – film director based in the UK, now head of Crescent Films, production company based in ...
The majority of those who took part in the consultation chose to self-identify as Pakistani and a decision was taken not to introduce a Kashmiri tick-box for the ethnic group question in the 2011 census. [29] The following ethnic codes are used in UK school ethnicity profiles: [30] AMPK: Mirpuri Pakistani; AKPA: Kashmiri Pakistani; AKAO ...