London, April 9 (IANS) British Conservative MP Katie Lam’s call for a national inquiry into UK grooming gangs exposes a scandal in which gangs of Pakistani British heritage systematically exploited vulnerable children — mostly white and Sikh girls — from the 1990s through the 2010s, devastating communities in towns like Rotherham, Rochdale, and Telford. “Predators targetted girls as young as 11 in everyday spots like parks, bus stops, or schools, luring them with flattery, alcohol, drugs…
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Islamabad, April 4 (IANS) The Finnish Embassy in Islamabad will cease its operations this summer, with the mission continuing to function until the final date is announced. After reopening its Embassy in 2022 following a decade-long closure, Helsinki has decided to shut it again, the local media reported. Finland’s neighbouring country, Sweden, had already closed its mission in Pakistan indefinitely in 2023 due to security concerns.Citing Finnish Embassy sources, leading Pakistani daily ‘The New…
Abu Dhabi, March 26 (IANS) One Indian national was killed and another injured as two people died and three suffered injuries after the debris of a ballistic missile fell in UAE’s Abu Dhabi on Thursday following a successful interception by the country’s air defence systems. “As part of the ongoing follow-up to the previously reported incident caused by falling debris following the successful interception of a ballistic missile by air defence systems, the incident has resulted in the deaths of tw…
Abu Dhabi, March 8 (IANS) The UAE said on Sunday that its air defences have detected 17 ballistic missiles, of which 16 were destroyed, while one missile fell into the sea. The UAE’s Ministry of Defence said that its air defences detected 117 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), of which 113 were intercepted while four UAVs fell within the country’s territory.In a statement shared on social media platform X, UAE’s Ministry of Defence said, “Since the start of the Iranian attacks, 238 ballistic missi…
Ottawa, March 2 (IANS) The Canadian student who was arrested in Pakistan while conducting research for his dissertation has not been granted bail. Hamza Ahmed Khan’s brother, Awes Ahmed Khan, said that there was no reason to keep his brother in prison, local media reported. “There is no reason to keep him behind bars. It feels like the system wants to punish him before a trial. We’ve not slept properly in a week,” Canada’s leading media outlet CBC News quoted Awes as saying.Hamza Ahmed Khan, a d…
Quetta, Feb 21 (IANS) Amma Hoori, who waited years for her missing son’s return and passed away carrying that grief on February 16, represents hundreds of mothers in Balochistan bearing the consequences of Pakistani policies and collective punishment. The pain endured by mothers like her has become part of collective political consciousness, shaping perceptions of the relationship between the Baloch population and the Pakistani state, a report said on Saturday.“Amma Hoori’s life was marked…
New Delhi, Feb 21 (IANS) The Lashkar-e-Tayiba is readying for a series of attacks in India, Intelligence agencies have warned. The outfit is planning on using local modules to execute these attacks. This alert comes in the wake of the agencies warning that the Lashkar-e-Tayiba is in the process of setting a series of homegrown modules in India. The outfit wants the attacks to be localised and is targeting states such as Haryana, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan to set up these local modules.Th…
London, Jan 17 (IANS) Pakistani grooming gangs in the United Kingdom are widely known for their organised operations and repeated targetting of minority communities, particularly Sikh and Hindu girls, with activists labelling the serial abuse as “the biggest peacetime crime — and cover-up — in British history”, a report has highlighted. It detailed that these grooming gangs have been associated with organised Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) for decades.According to a report in New Delhi-ba…