Overview
- Reports attributed to Drop Site News, relayed by India Today and WION, say Islamabad would accept deported convicts such as Qari Abdul Rauf and Adil Khan if Britain extradites Shahzad Akbar and Adil Raja.
- A December 4 meeting in Islamabad between Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi and UK High Commissioner Jane Marriott is confirmed, though public readouts cited general repatriation issues rather than any swap involving grooming offenders.
- GB News, citing Whitehall sources, says Pakistani ministers raised removing the two dissidents months ago, and Conservative Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp urged the UK to reject any trade‑off.
- The International Human Rights Foundation condemned the reported plan as transnational repression and highlighted that Raja was court‑martialled in absentia and given a 14‑year sentence without normal legal safeguards.
- Practical barriers remain because some offenders were stripped of British citizenship and renounced Pakistani nationality, and the UK and Pakistan lack a formal extradition treaty even though ad hoc arrangements are possible under UK law.