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Seeks U.K. asylum

Hasan Suroor

LONDON: The mother of a disabled teenage Pakistani girl has appealed to the British Government to allow her to stay on in Britain for the treatment of her daughter who has a twisted spine. Aqsa Altaf (13), who is said to need a wheelchair for most of the time, faces deportation back to Pakistan as her family's claim for asylum has already been rejected. Her five-year-old brother Sumana also reportedly suffers from a "creeping'' disability. Samina Altaf, their mother, who came to Britain two years ago to seek asylum, alleged that she had been ill-treated by her husband and in-laws for giving birth to disabled children. When her asylum claim was rejected she appealed against it but the adjudicator, who reviewed her application, also ruled against her.

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