UK Muslim problem kids sent to PoK schools

According to a report in the Daily Telegraph,Hickey,the Foreign Office’s Pakistan team leader,said there was “a growing trend of UK-based parents who send their ‘problem children’ to madrassas in PoK,and these students are at high risk of radicalisation.”

Later Hickey told US diplomats of “what HMG internally terms the ‘Kashmir escalation effect’.

This meant that “while it appears the government of Pakistan has ceased to run militant training camps in Kashmir (POK),the camps continue to operate.”

“Terrorist organisations,like al-Qaeda,have begun using these camps as recruitment centres. After additional training… recruitees are then poised to commit terrorist activities,” Hickey was quoted as saying in the report.

Britain was also concerned that “UK passport-holders will be recruited for terrorist operations in the UK.”

“With the continued presence of militant training camps in PoK and over half a million UK passport-holders with ties to the region,HMG is concerned that UK nationals will be recruited to conduct terrorist activities in the UK,” the official said.

“As part of the ‘Promoting British Islam’ programme,prominent Muslim Britons of Pakistani descent travel to PoK on goodwill trips to explain life as a Muslim in the UK,” the cable said.

Gen Deepak Kapoor,the Chief of Indian Army in November 2009,said there are still 42 terror camps across the border in Pakistan.