{"id":4250,"date":"2009-11-04T15:21:36","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T15:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/11\/04\/diplomatic-row-over-rapist-on-the-run\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T11:49:05","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T11:49:05","slug":"diplomatic-row-over-rapist-on-the-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/04\/diplomatic-row-over-rapist-on-the-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Diplomatic row over rapist on the run"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Pakistan High Commission hit out at security \u2018slackness\u2019<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" width=\"180\" height=\"274\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/ImtiazHussain_180x232.jpg\"\/>A DIPLOMATIC row has broken out between Britain and Pakistan after a rapist fled from the Pakistan High Commission in London 90 seconds after entering the building.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Consul general Nafees Zakaria hit out at the \u201cincompetence\u201d of British security officials after Imtiaz Hussain, 44, fled the building through a toilet window. \u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Hussain, who is still on the run, was taken to the Pakistan High Commission last Friday to obtain a passport so he could be deported at the end of a nine year prison sentence for a double rape. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Diplomatic officials said Hussain was not handcuffed when he was brought into the building and had only a single security guard with him. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>They also claimed they were not told the convicted criminal was coming.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Consul general Nafees Zakaria was particularly scathing in his assessment of the incident, accusing security officials of \u201cincompetence\u201d.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;This happened because of the incompetence and slackness on the part of immigration officials. He simply ran away,\u201d Mr Zakaria said. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;I saw the CCTV recording. It showed they entered at one point. It took him one minute and 30 seconds to come out again.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;He was seen running out of the same door through which he entered with an immigration official.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Police have been hunting for Hussain since he was last seen running across Sloane Square shortly after 2.30pm.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan High Commission hit out at security \u2018slackness\u2019 A DIPLOMATIC row has broken out between Britain and Pakistan after a rapist fled from the Pakistan High Commission in London 90 seconds after entering the building. &#13; Consul general Nafees Zakaria hit out at the \u201cincompetence\u201d of British security officials after Imtiaz Hussain, 44, fled the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}