Pak-origin councillor in Scotland suspended

Jahangir Hanif (46), whose pictures appeared under the headline “Councillor Kalashnikov” admitted after being suspended last night that his behaviour had been “foolish and inappropriate”.

Hanif’s 17-year-old daughter, Noor, said that she and four of her siblings had been driven in a blacked-out vehicle to an alleged training base in mountains in the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and encouraged to fire the weapon.

Video footage passed to the Glasgow Evening Times showed Hanif’s youngest daughter, Sana, aged 5 at the time, being helped to fire the automatic rifle, the newspaper said. His son Ameer, now 14, also fired the weapon, as did his daughters Zainab (13) and Amina (10) the paper said.