TWO Glaswegian Christian teens risk being forced to beg for their lives in Pakistan, the Church of Scotland has warned.

Somer Umeed, 15, and his 13-year-old brother Areeb have been living in Glasgow since 2012, but risk being deported after their parents exhausted all attempts to claim asylum in the UK.

The Home Office says they do not believe the boys, and their parents, Mahmood and Parveen, would be at risk in Pakistan.

Linda Pollock, the family’s minister, has called on Sajid Javid to think again.

The Possilpark Parish Church reverend has started a petition in a bid to show the Home Office how much the Umeeds are wanted in Glasgow.

“They have exhausted all avenues of appeal to the Home Office for the right to stay here and I fear for their lives,” she said.

“I am also very concerned about the impact of living with this high level of stress is having upon them.”

Pollock said the brothers were “just kids” who have already given the community so much and have more to give.

“We ought to be nurturing these youngsters not placing them in an unbearable situation where they are publicly begging for life,” she added.

“It feels as if Somer and Areeb are being treated not as boys, alive with hopes and dreams, but as numbers on a list.

“My hope in setting up this petition is that the people’s voice will be heard by the Home Office, the ordinary people who know what it is to dream, to hope and celebrate our gift of life.”

She said Somer and Areeb, who were just 9 and 7 when they came to Glasgow, regard the city as their home and identify as Scottish.

Both boys are pupils at Springburn Academy. Amy Brown, who is in sixth year at the school, has also started a petition to help the boys and 2159 people have signed it so far.

Brown said: “The reason why we decided to help Somer and Areeb was due to the impact they have had on our school, their friends and the Springburn community.

“There are always stories about those who are being threatened with deportation but it was a shock when a family in our community was faced with that.

“That was when I and many others decided that we couldn’t sit back and watch a family that has lived here for more than six years and made Scotland their home be taken away.”

The Umeeds moved to Scotland after two Christians were gunned down outside a court, while in police custody, in the Pakistan city of Faisalabad in July 2010.

Pastor Rashid Emmanuel, 32, and Sajid, 24, were accused of writing a pamphlet critical of the Prophet Muhammad that flouted Pakistan’s controversial blasphemy law, which carries the death penalty.

Maqsood, an elder at Possilpark Parish Church, claims the people responsible for their deaths believe he is an associate of theirs, know exactly who he is and would kill him and his family if they had the chance.

The 50-year-old said four of his friends have been killed by Islamic extremists, and that his sister in law’s brother is serving life in jail because of the blasphemy law .

He says his nephew was kidnapped last month.

Speaking earlier this year Somer said: “I love Scotland and I do not want to go back to Pakistan. The thought of it terrifies me and it is very stressful to even imagine going back there. I wouldn’t have a future and I can’t even read or write Urdu. I want to live here in Scotland, it is my country and my home.”

Labour MP for Glasgow North East, Paul Sweeney, has raised the family’s case in the Commons: “I refuse to countenance an outcome where they are put in danger by being deported to Pakistan”.

A Home Office spokesperson said they couldn’t comment on specific cases: “The UK has a proud history of granting asylum to those who need our protection and every case is assessed on its individual merits.”

Pakistan’s High Consulate declined to comment.