Pakistan has reportedly announced a proposal to the UK to repatriate Pakistani-origin convicted sex offenders from Britain. Pak wants Britain to hand over some of the rebels of the regime along with it.
Pakistan has reportedly announced a proposal to the UK to repatriate Pakistani-origin convicted sex offenders from Britain. Pak wants Britain to hand over some of the rebels of the regime along with it.
This move comes along with Pakistan’s demand to extradite certain political figures labelled as rebels by the government. Islamabad said it would accept the return of convicted members of the Pakistani grooming gang, like Qari Abdul Rauf and Adil Khan, in exchange for Britain extraditing two high-profile anti-Asim Munir political dissidents.
The two dissidents are Shahzad Akbar, the special assistant to former PM Imran Khan, and Adil Raja, a Pakistani army officer-turner-whistleblower, reported US-based independent outlet, Drop Site News, citing sources.
Both of them have been living in exile in the UK from April 2022, and are critics of the hybrid regime of Asim Munir-led military and PM Shehbaz Sharif.
What is sex grooming gang?
UK has been long grappling with cases involving grooming gangs and criminal offenders that exploit minors, for sexual abuse. Grooming gangs in the UK were networks of predominantly Pakistani men who targeted mostly white minor girls.
The girls were threatened by Pakistani men and passed on the thing to the other gang members. The extent to sex racket shocked the world as the scale of crime occurred on a massive scale.
The UK government holds a delicate balancing act. There is a strong commitment to bringing criminals to justice and safeguarding victims. The British legal system legalises fair process when it concerns politically sensitive cases.
Children were the victims
It was an issue amplified over the past two years by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who claimed that “a quarter of a million” children in the UK were victims.
The alleged proposal emerged after a December 4 meeting in Islamabad between Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi and UK High Commissioner Jane Marriott.
Official statements described the talks as focused on “security cooperation”, tackling “fake news”, and repatriating undocumented Pakistanis.
Why is Pakistan grooming gangs?
Pakistani-origin grooming gangs in the UK were networks of predominantly Pakistani men who, from the 1990s onward, targeted vulnerable girls, mostly white, working-class teens, through coercion, manipulation, and extreme violence.
The victims were gang-raped, harassed, and brutally abused resulting in the murder of young girls overnight.
The grooming gang has been bad news for the British government and UK nationals. Currently, Pakistan and the UK have no formal extradition treaty, though Section 194 of the UK Extradition Act 2003 allows for special “ad hoc” arrangements.
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