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What Will Be The Impact Of Brexit On British Pakistanis?

By Sikander Hayat  Impact of Brexit on British Pakistanis is going to be huge. There are sizeable Pakistani communities living in United Kingdom , Norway , Spain , Ireland and other Western European countries . What does the future hold for the cohesion of these communities. Would Brexit stop them from interacting, living and working. I guess this point is true for anyone living in Britain and the rest of EU but now that the third/ fourth generation of Pakistanis are growing up, leaving now will be huge blow to their future prospects. It is not out of the question that UK will suffer an economic loss if it leaves EU. The most painful truth is that current debate in UK has moved away from economy to the toxic subject of immigration . Now immigration is at the front, right and centre of the Brexit debate and because of this toxic environment, MP Jo Cox was murdered by a right wing terrorist in the city of Leeds . That terrorist believed that Ms Cox was pro immi