London, Sep 10 - British anti-terror border controls were described as 'wholly inadequate' after a newspaper revealed that only 29 out of 66,000 Pakistani immigration applicants were interviewed by British officials.

Visa checks on immigrants from Pakistan were condemned as a sham after the Daily Mail said official figures showed that just 29 out of 66,000 applicants were interviewed by officials since Britain put in place a supposedly rigorous system last October.

The British Home Office set up a 'hub and spoke' scheme to prevent terrorists, extremists, illegals and criminals from entering Britain, with plans to scrutinise candidates' document in the Middle East before they travelled to Britain.

Under the new arrangements, visa applications by Pakistani and Afghan nationals are checked for fraud and forgery in Islamabad and are then passed to a processing centre in Abu Dhabi.