Karima Mehrab: British Rule and Asylum Claim

karima mehrab: Karima Mehrab was recognized by the British Broadcasting Corporation for her campaigns for independence for Balochistan, an area that had been under the British rule until 1947 and was later acceded to Pakistan as one of the country's four provinces, according to Toronto Star. Ironically, Mehrab's efforts are also what got the 33-year-old chair of the Baloch Students Organization BSO one of the groups behind the Balochistan separatist movement, into trouble in Canada. NICHOLAS KEUNG / TORONTO STAR By Nicholas Keung Immigration reporter Mon., Dec. 26, 2016 A refugee named by the BBC as one of the world's 100 most inspirational and influential women in 2016 has had her asylum claim suspended by Ottawa because of her activism. Mehrab is facing an inadmissibility order by the Canada Border Services Agency because of the group's involvement in subversion against the Pakistani government. The Baloch Students Organization is banned by Islamabad but it is not among the terrorist entities listed by the Canadian government. Her asylum claim has been put on hold pending the outcome of an inadmissibility hearing by a refugee board tribunal in early 2017. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.