Mercedes and mansion in Pakistan, dole in Britain - (Pakistani immigrants milking Brit system)

TELEGRAPH INDIA.COM ^ | JULY 12, 2005 | DANIEL FOGGO AND MASSOUD ANSARI

[CHARLITE]

A prominent Pakistani politician has been receiving British state benefits to which he was not entitled while living in a palatial home in Karachi.

As the governor of Sindh province in Pakistan, Dr Ishrat-ul-Ebad Khan lives in a mansion in the state capital while being waited on by servants and chauffeured in Mercedes limousines.

Yet, while enjoying the perks of his position, he was for 10 months the recipient of money from the benefits system, including income support worth about £1,000 a month.

Taxpayers also funded the £244-a-week rent on a house in north-west London, that Dr Khan keeps as a base for his family in Britain. His wife, Shaheena, also received benefits as she had been diagnosed with a “stress disorder”. Extra money was added to allow for Dr Khan, who did not have a job, as her full-time carer.

Last night Andrew Dismore, the Labour MP whose Hendon constituency includes the house rented by the Khans, called on ministers to launch an immediate inquiry. Dismore, a former member of the Commons Work and Pensions select committee, said: “I would be very surprised if the rules allowed this.”

Danny Alexander, Liberal Democrat spokesperson on work and pensions, said: “A system that allows mistakes such as this to occur is clearly not working.” When confronted by The Sunday Telegraph, Dr Khan, who has four children, admitted receiving benefits to which he was not entitled since taking up his position as governor three years ago but insisted that he had paid back the money. There has been no further claim since October 2003.

Dr Khan, who trained at Sindh Medical College in Karachi, came to Britain in 1992 as an asylum seeker. Following the acceptance of his asylum claim in 1999, Dr Khan was entitled to a range of British benefits. He and his family have been living in a pebble-dashed semi-detached corner house in Edgware, a north London suburb since 1997. In May 1999, they began claiming income support, which also entitled him to other payments, such as housing benefit.

Dr Khan said he had repaid a matter of “a few hundred pounds” but was keen to make sure any money that might still be outstanding was reimbursed. “If anything has been done, even inadvertently, I would very much like to rectify it.”

[CHARLITE]

I wonder how many there are like Dr. Ishrat-ul-Ebad Khan.

[BigFinn]

Why do you think there has been such an influx of immigrants into Europe? They are all 'freegans'. Problem is... they brought their immams with them.

[injin]

it is incredible that the British people shell out so much as a single shilling for these ungrateful, seditious and evil Islamic immigrants that infest their land.....

[Travis McGee]

This is far from original. Muslims have been raping Europe for centuries.

Book Description (Amazon)

This is a study that digs deeply into this "other" slavery, the bondage of Europeans by north-African Muslims that flourished during the same centuries as the heyday of the trans-Atlantic trade from sub-Saharan Africa to the Americas. Here are explored--perhaps for the first time--the actual extent of Barbary Coast slavery, the dynamic relationship between master and slave, and the effects of this slaving on Italy, one of the slave takers' primary targets and victims.

About the Author: Robert C. Davis is in the Department of History, Ohio State University, Columbus. (Published 2004)

[Travis McGee]

Check the book linked at Amazon above.

[milford421]

Forget Europe...the same is happening right here in the U.S.

In the New York/New Jersey area.

Wondering when someone will stop the abuse of medical, welfare and educational benefits being taken from U.S. taxpayers by legal and illegal middle easterners.

[Publius6961]

So whom do we need to "get" first?
The crooks who milk the system?
The bottom dwelling politicians who make it all possible with BS "refugee" legislation?

Or the domestic parasites running the system, aka "bureaucrats"?

[milford421]

Gee, that's a tough one.

Since a fish rots from the head down, I guess I would start at the top...