International Development CommitteeWritten evidence submitted by Anwar Akhtar, Founder of Samosa.co.uk

That DFID and other UK agencies including the British Council widen support for British Pakistani diaspora cultural, social and campaign groups that support welfare, education, democracy, health, culture, arts and civil society programmes and activities in Pakistan. Those agencies such as DFID and the British Council support peer to peer and institutional partnerships between Pakistan and Britain by engagement of diaspora groups across these areas and seek to identify and support existing models of delivery and good practice in these areas within their Pakistan programmes.

March 2013