Pakistan offers UK grooming gang return for dissidents Akbar, Raja

• Pakistan reportedly offered to take back British-Pakistani grooming gang convicts from the UK.
• The offer is conditional on the UK extraditing two political dissidents, Shehzad Akbar and Adil Raja, accused of "anti-state propaganda."
• The proposal was discussed between Pakistan's Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi and UK High Commissioner Jane Marriott.
• The UK has struggled to deport these convicts, whose British citizenship was revoked, as Pakistan previously refused to accept them.
• The proposed deal faces legal obstacles due to the lack of an extradition treaty and is criticized as "transnational repression."

Why It Matters: This controversial deal could compromise human rights for political expediency.