Archive: Oct 21, 2013, 12:00 AM
Suicide Bombers Target Pakistani Christians
Ashkar arrived in Edinburgh three years ago to begin his studies at the Free Church College: the second member of his family to join us (his brother, Aftab, is now a minister in Grangemouth).
Three months later Ashkar returned home. Britain’s misguided immigration rules (the concession of weak governments to mindless public clamour) forbade his wife to join him, and the thought of four lonely years in a cold, alien city was too much.