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New Delhi/Quetta, Aug 8 (IANS) Pakistani exiles living in London who have criticised the country's powerful military have been warned that their lives are in danger, raising fresh concern over authoritarian regimes targeting foreign dissidents in the UK, the Guardian reported.
British security sources are understood to be concerned that Pakistan, a strong UK ally - particularly on intelligence issues - might be prepared to target individuals on British soil.
The Observer reported that further warnings have been given by other intelligence services across Europe to Pakistani dissidents, including rights activists from the Pakistani province of Balochistan, journalists, and members of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement, a group representing ethnic Pashtuns.
Last month, a man from east London was charged with conspiring with others unknown to murder exiled Pakistani blogger and political activist, Ahmad Waqass Goraya, in the Netherlands.
Muhammad Gohir Khan, 31, from Forest Gate, east London, appeared at the Old Bailey after being arrested at St Pancras station in London having come from the Netherlands.
Mark Lyall Grant, former UK high commissioner to Pakistan and once the UK's top diplomat to the UN, said that if figures from the Pakistani military had threatened exiles in the UK, then this would be taken very seriously by the British government, the report said.
