MI5 launches Urdu version of website
Richard Norton-Taylor
Thursday May 26, 2005
Guardian
MI5 made another move yesterday to reach out to Britain's ethnic minorities by launching an Urdu version of its website.
The initiative is designed to attract people in the British Pakistani community, where Urdu is widely spoken.
Urdu speakers are told how they can help MI5 with useful information. They can also browse the website to see if they want a job in the security service.
"In protecting all members of UK society from threats to national security, the security service needs to recruit people from across all the communities it serves," the website says.
It adds: "The service relies heavily on public assistance and support to do its work effectively."
The website encourages members of the public to send it any information they think could be relevant to its work to "help keep their communities safe".
Last year, MI5 published a section on its website called How You Can Help, in Arabic, in what it described as a move "to build on the cooperation of the Muslim community". It will later be translated into Hindi.
Yesterday, Eliza Manningham-Buller, MI5's director general, said: "The security service exists to protect the United Kingdom from the threats which face us.
"To do the best possible job, we need to communicate effectively with the whole community."
She added: "Members of the Muslim community make a vital contribution to countering the terrorist threat ... . By communicating directly with the public through our website, we hope to debunk a few myths."
She described the Urdu version of the website as "an important step forward".
The website also makes clear that MI5 wants to recruit people from different ethnic minority communities.
MI5 says it is particularly keen to talk to people who speak Sorani, Arabic, north African Arabic, Urdu, Gujrati, Bengali, Fujianese, Tamil, Turkish, Farsi and Pashtu
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1492246,00.html
and you can visit MI5 Urdu here :
http://www.mi5.gov.uk/output/Page323.html
Thursday May 26, 2005
Guardian
MI5 made another move yesterday to reach out to Britain's ethnic minorities by launching an Urdu version of its website.
The initiative is designed to attract people in the British Pakistani community, where Urdu is widely spoken.
Urdu speakers are told how they can help MI5 with useful information. They can also browse the website to see if they want a job in the security service.
"In protecting all members of UK society from threats to national security, the security service needs to recruit people from across all the communities it serves," the website says.
It adds: "The service relies heavily on public assistance and support to do its work effectively."
The website encourages members of the public to send it any information they think could be relevant to its work to "help keep their communities safe".
Last year, MI5 published a section on its website called How You Can Help, in Arabic, in what it described as a move "to build on the cooperation of the Muslim community". It will later be translated into Hindi.
Yesterday, Eliza Manningham-Buller, MI5's director general, said: "The security service exists to protect the United Kingdom from the threats which face us.
"To do the best possible job, we need to communicate effectively with the whole community."
She added: "Members of the Muslim community make a vital contribution to countering the terrorist threat ... . By communicating directly with the public through our website, we hope to debunk a few myths."
She described the Urdu version of the website as "an important step forward".
The website also makes clear that MI5 wants to recruit people from different ethnic minority communities.
MI5 says it is particularly keen to talk to people who speak Sorani, Arabic, north African Arabic, Urdu, Gujrati, Bengali, Fujianese, Tamil, Turkish, Farsi and Pashtu
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1492246,00.html
and you can visit MI5 Urdu here :
http://www.mi5.gov.uk/output/Page323.html
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