“Political correctness” has prevented authorities from tackling British Pakistani grooming gangs abusing vulnerable white English girls, the home secretary has said. Suella Braverman said that the “systematic and institutional failure to safeguard the welfare of children when it comes to sexual abuse” is one of the biggest scandals in British history. “What’s clear is that…

ISLAMABAD—Police in the Pakistani capital filed charges Sunday against former Prime Minister Imran Khan, 17 of his aides and scores of supporters, accusing them of terrorism and several other offenses after the ousted premier’s followers clashed with security forces in Islamabad the previous day. For hours on Saturday, Khan’s followers clashed with police outside a…

SEHWAN, Pakistan—Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday visited some of the flood-hit areas that cover as much as a third of the South Asian nation, where 18 more deaths took the toll from days of rain to 1,343. As many as 33 million of a population of 220 million have been affected, officials estimate….

LONDON—Racist and misogynistic attitudes within Britain’s Pakistani community led to the “industrial rape” of more than 1,000 white girls and little has been done to tackle those beliefs, an event organised by the campaign group Don’t Divide Us was told on Thursday night. In April, Greater Manchester Police apologised for failing to protect girls who had…

“Political correctness” is standing in the way of tackling child sex grooming gangs in the UK, Conservative leadership contender Rishi Sunak has said. The former chancellor said, if he becomes party leader and prime minister, he will make sure UK police forces record the ethnicity of members of the paedophile rings, who are predominantly of…

A British police force has apologised to three women and paid them substantial damages for failing to protect them from pedophile rings in the city of Rochdale. Instead of child victims of sexual abuse, the three were viewed by police as “bad” or “unreliable” witnesses and were sometimes arrested themselves while reporting abuse, the women…

PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN—Gunmen attacked two police providing security for polio vaccination workers in northwest Pakistan, shooting and killing one and wounding the other, officials said Saturday. Mohammad Khurasani, spokesman for Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, known as the Pakistani Taliban, claimed responsibility. It was the first attack since the TTP on Friday announced the end of a one-month cease-fire…

QUETTA, Pakistan—A Pakistani dissident and woman rights activist who died in exile in Canada last month was brought home and laid to rest in her home village in the southwestern Baluchistan province under tight security, activists said Monday. Only the immediate family of 37-year-old Karima Baloch were allowed to attend her funeral on Sunday in…