UI2023001293 & UI2023001292

Pursuant to Rule 14 of the Tribunal Procedure (Upper Tribunal) Rules 2008, we make an anonymity order. Unless the Upper Tribunal or a Court directs otherwise, no report of these proceedings or any form of publication thereof shall directly or indirectly identify the Appellants or members of their family. This direction applies to, amongst others, all parties. Any failure to comply with this direction could give rise to contempt of court proceedings. We make this order because the Appellants seek international protection and so are entitled to privacy.

             The Appellants have been granted permission to appeal the decision of First-tier Tribunal Judge Herlihy ("the Judge"), promulgated on 23 March 2023.

             On 25 May 2022, the Respondent refused both applications and it is these decisions that were the subject matter of the appeal before the Judge. In refusing the applications, the Respondent took as her starting point, for both the protection and human rights aspects of the claims, the earlier decision of First-tier Tribunal Judge Flynn ("Judge Flynn"), promulgated on 2 December 2015.

(1)             "... the Appellants could not live safely in Pakistan unless one of them converted ... they cannot be required to do this and therefore I accept that they cannot go to Pakistan, even if they marry" [73].

(2)             "I do not find it reasonably likely that there would be a real risk for the moral or physical integrity of either Appellant in India, so long as they do not try to settle in a rural area. I consider it reasonable for them to relocate to a heavily populated area" [74].