[FreedomCalls]

"those arrested were mainly young, British-born Asian men."

"Asian" in PC Brit-speak usually means Pakistanis.

[Cindy]

That's correct.

Listening to Fox News.com

20 arrests so far and 20 planes possibly may have been involved.

[Brit_Guy]

" "Asian" in PC Brit-speak usually means Pakistanis."

I'm not sure that it is 'PC', more a hang over from Colonialism when we actually still owned most of 'Asia'.

We tend to use 'Asian' for anyone who looks like they come from the Indian sub-continent (e.g. Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshi's, Sri Lankans). Whereas for the types of people you would call Asians (Chinese, Thais, Japanese etc) we call them a very unPC 'Orientals'.