{"id":29101,"date":"2024-05-04T12:48:33","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T12:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=29101"},"modified":"2024-05-04T12:48:33","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T12:48:33","slug":"senior-british-official-meets-bradford-pakistanis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/senior-british-official-meets-bradford-pakistanis\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior British official meets Bradford Pakistanis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29102\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_0033-e1714826712571.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"353\" \/>Bradford\/ UK : As part of the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)\u2019s efforts to connect with diaspora communities, officials visited Bradford to meet with British-Pakistanis.<\/h5>\n<h5>They were led by Head of Pakistan Department, Richard Lindsay, who used the visit to connect with some of the 140,000 people of Pakistani heritage in the city.<\/h5>\n<h5>The FCDO delegation met with various organisations, including Women Zone, Empowering Minds and QED Foundation. They also met with some of the women from the BBC\u2019s <em>Bradford Aunties<\/em> documentary which addresses the loss of skills, culture, and language across the generational gap.<\/h5>\n<h5>Head of Pakistan Richard Lindsay said:<\/h5>\n<h5>\u201cThose of Pakistani heritage in Bradford make a significant contribution to both the UK and Pakistan, including through Zakat, leadership and cultural contributions. It has been a productive day, celebrating the best of the UK-Pakistan relationship, while also being able to have frank, constructive conversations on some of the challenges ahead.\u201d<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29103\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_0042-e1714826766966.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"251\" \/><\/h5>\n<h5>Discussions centred around human rights, security, and the need for immediate economic reform.<\/h5>\n<h5>The visit took place following the launch of the first UK-Pakistan Advisory Council, which Lindsay chaired, on Monday 29 April. The advisory council brings together representatives of the British-Pakistani from across the UK, with expertise across a range of sectors from education and business to women\u2019s empowerment and climate change, to offer advice on how the UK can advance its partnership with Pakistan.<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Bradford\/ UK : As part of the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)\u2019s efforts to connect with diaspora communities, officials visited Bradford to meet with British-Pakistanis. They were led by Head of Pakistan Department, Richard Lindsay, who used the visit to connect with some of the 140,000 people of Pakistani heritage in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[1731,5164,5162,5163,48,5165,178,129,2208],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29104,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29101\/revisions\/29104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}