TWO asylum families who've lived in Glasgow for years have been taken from their homes - one in a dawn raid - and thrown in detention centres.

TWO asylum families who've lived in Glasgow for years have been taken from their homes - one in a dawn raid - and thrown in detention centres.

Rahila and Muhammed Choudhary, who have three children aged four, nine and 11, say they won't give up their fight to stay in Shawlands.

The family fled Pakistan in 2003 after a kidnapper tried to snatch Mrs Choudbary and her eldest son as she picked him up from school.

They built a new life in Glasgow and quickly became part of the community.

But they have now been told they must return to Lahore, where their lives could be in danger.

The family were arrested last Thursday and held in Dungavel before being taken to a detention centre in London at the weekend. As campaigners called for their release, it emerged that another Pakistini family, living in the Red Road flats, had been subjected to a dawn raid.

Mohammed Arshad, wife Kishwer and their children, Ali, 19, Fatima, 18, and Rashid, 16, were dragged out of their beds early yesterday morning and taken to Dungavel.

The Arshads have been in Scotland for six years.

A spokeswoman for the Unity Centre in Ibrox, which supports Glasgow's asylum seekers, said both families had been treated apallingly'.

She said: "The Choudhary family are really well integrated into the community. For a family and three young children to be arrested and locked up is horrendous."

Meanwhile, a Turkish family whose plight was highlighted by the Evening Times last week have won the right to stay in Glasgow pending a full review of their case.

Halil and Songul Demirci and their two children have lived in Dennistoun since fleeing Turkey in 2001.