The panel will conduct local investigations in areas where significant response failures have been identified with respect to child sexual exploitation by grooming gangs.
Indian Premier League franchise Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) has landed in controversy after its sister team Sunrisers Leeds signed Pakistani spinner Abrar Ahmed in the latest edition of The Hundred. The England-based franchise acquired the 27-year-old leg-spinner for £190,000 (around ₹2.34 crore) at the 2026 player auction held at Piccadilly Lights in London.
Soon after the signing, social media erupted in criticism, with many users accusing the franchise, owned by the Sun Group led by Kalanithi Maran, of backing a cricketer who has previously mocked India and Indian armed forces personnel online. Several posts specifically referenced Ahmed’s earlier social media activity targeting Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman, the Indian Air Force pilot who became a national hero after the 2019 India-Pakistan aerial skirmish following the Balakot airstrikes, during which he reportedly shot down a Pakistani F-16 before being captured and later released.
One X user, posting under the handle “Brutal Truth,” wrote, “I have unfollowed and blocked @SunRisers and @sunrisersleeds for buying Abrar Ahmed. He mocked Abhinandan with his silly social media posts. Can’t support an IPL team that is not true to its own country.”
I have unfollowed and BLOCKED @SunRisers and @sunrisersleeds for buying Abrar Ahmed.He mocked Abhinandan with...
The report highlights that although the survivors have their own unique stories of abuse and torment they were subjected to, however, “patterns of targeted exploitation by predominantly Pakistani males, combined with gross negligence from public bodies, are identifiable.”
Pakistan did not condemn its diaspora grooming gangs and tried to downplay the heinous crimes as 'reprehensible actions of a few individuals.' It then went on to narrate how Pakistanis are 'enriching' the culture of the United Kingdom.
In the UK, vulnerable girls as young as 11 were picked up, raped, beaten, sold, and even killed by grooming gangs or rape gangs for a full forty years.
The convict Stevan Marston had been grooming the 13-year-old girl. In May 2022, he invited her over to an address in Telford and then invited his friend Yasser Mahmood to the house where they raped her.
Shabana Mahmood doubled down on her anti-India activism after Prime Minister Modi-led-BJP government abrogated Article 370 of the Indian Constitution on 5th August 2019.