The husbands of two of the three British sisters feared to have travelled to Syria with their nine children have accused police of being "complicit in the grooming and radicalising" of the women.
The men will meet the chairman of Britain's Commons Home Affairs Committee, Keith Vaz, after their lawyers wrote to Vaz criticising the police actions.
British sisters Khadija Dawood, 30, Sugra Dawood, 34, and Zohra Dawood, 33, and their children, aged between three and 15, are feared to have travelled to link up with terror group IS in the country.
Akhtar Iqbal and Mohammed Shoaib have pleaded for their wives to return. Through their lawyers, Khan Solicitors, they have now expressed grave concerns about police conduct in the lead-up to their wives' disappearance.
Referring to a brother of the sisters, who is believed to have joined IS, the letter said: "Indeed, we are alarmed by the fact that the police have been actively promoting and encouraging contact with the brother-in-law of our client whom, it is believed, is fighting in Syria.
"It would appear that there has been a reckless disregard as to the consequences of any such contact on the families of those whom we represent."
The letter, posted by Labour MP Mr Vaz on his website, continued: "Plainly, by the NECTU (North East Counter Terrorism Unit) allowing this contact they have been complicit in the grooming and radicalising of the women."
The letter also confirmed that Zohra Dawood left a voice message for her family on Wednesday indicating she was already in Syria and that the missing people had travelled there together "due to the oppressive nature of the continued surveillance by the police".
The group travelled to Saudi Arabia on May 28 to go on an Islamic pilgrimage.
They were due to return to the UK on June 11, but broke off contact with family in Britain two days earlier on June 9.
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