The leading Pakistani Human Rights activist Ansar Burney has been deported back to Dubai on Friday night. Burney, who was the Human Rights Minister in the interim government in Pakistan, was deported back from the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi by an Emirates Airways flight at around 2030 hours because of a “look-out” notice against him.

Home Ministry officials, however, could not say who had issued the notice against Burney & in what connection. Sources in the Ministry of External Affairs said Burney’s deportation could have been due to “some mistake”. Soon after his deportation, Burney’s son shot off an e-mail to some journalists in Delhi informing them of his father’s deportation.