Pakistan 'weaponizes' grooming gangs, offers them for dissidents to silence critics

• Pakistan offered to take back convicted "grooming gang" members from the UK.
• In exchange, Pakistan demands the extradition of two political dissidents, Shahzad Akbar and Adil Raja.
• The dissidents are critics of Pakistan's Army Chief General Asim Munir's regime.
• The proposal has sparked outrage, with critics calling it an attempt to silence dissent and "weaponize" child abuse.
• The UK lacks a formal extradition treaty with Pakistan, but one-off arrangements are possible.

Why It Matters: Pakistan weaponizes child abuse scandal to silence critics abroad.