Unemployed Haneef wants to go to Australia
Despite his ordeal in spending four weeks behind bars before the case against him collapsed, Haneef on Monday said he wanted to study and work abroad and is awaiting whether the Australian court will reinstate his work visa.
By PTI |
MELBOURNE: Indian doctor Mohamed Haneef, who was cleared of charges in the failed UK terror plot, is determined to regain his Australian visa so that he can return to work here as currently he is unemployed in India.
Despite his ordeal in spending four weeks behind bars before the case against him collapsed, Haneef on Monday said he wanted to study and work abroad and is awaiting whether the Australian court will reinstate his work visa.
"I don't have a job at this time and I'm just relying on my ... savings and what I've done," he told ABC TV.
"The prospect of going abroad for further studies anywhere in the world or to work for any other institution in the world or attending any conference, anything like that, it all depends on me having a clear record," he said.
Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews cancelled Haneef's visa on July 16 just hours after a Brisbane magistrate freed him on bail, finding the prosecution case against him was weak.
Federal Court judge Jeffrey Spender ruled in August that Andrews had made a "jurisdictional error" in revoking Haneef's visa on character grounds. Andrews is appealing against the decision.
Before the case against him fell apart, police alleged Haneef acted recklessly by giving a SIM card to his second cousin, Sabeel Ahmed, whom British police had charged with withholding information about a terrorist attack. Sabeel's brother, Kafeel Ahmed, had been at the wheel of a blazing jeep that crashed into Glasgow airport on June 30, a day after a bomb plot was foiled in London.
Despite his ordeal in spending four weeks behind bars before the case against him collapsed, Haneef on Monday said he wanted to study and work abroad and is awaiting whether the Australian court will reinstate his work visa.
"I don't have a job at this time and I'm just relying on my ... savings and what I've done," he told ABC TV.
"The prospect of going abroad for further studies anywhere in the world or to work for any other institution in the world or attending any conference, anything like that, it all depends on me having a clear record," he said.
Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews cancelled Haneef's visa on July 16 just hours after a Brisbane magistrate freed him on bail, finding the prosecution case against him was weak.
Federal Court judge Jeffrey Spender ruled in August that Andrews had made a "jurisdictional error" in revoking Haneef's visa on character grounds. Andrews is appealing against the decision.
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Before the case against him fell apart, police alleged Haneef acted recklessly by giving a SIM card to his second cousin, Sabeel Ahmed, whom British police had charged with withholding information about a terrorist attack. Sabeel's brother, Kafeel Ahmed, had been at the wheel of a blazing jeep that crashed into Glasgow airport on June 30, a day after a bomb plot was foiled in London.
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