Jon,
"So you do you agree that it would be unreasonable to make any statement that implicates British Pakistanis (or other culture) on a national level? "

It would be unreasonable of me to make any such claim, but not unreasonable for me to report such a statement made by authoritative persons.

Jim, Asians includes BPs.
Where the ethnicicity of the Asian offenders was recorded, 96% were BPs