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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
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Emmanuel Morilla

Nigel Farage Wants Pakistani Grooming Gang Ringleader Deported and Threatens Visa Ban if Pakistan Refuses

Nigel Farage has called for Shabir Ahmed’s deportation and threatened visa restrictions on Pakistan. (Credit: Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons)

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has called for the deportation of Shabir Ahmed and threatened visa restrictions on Pakistan after the Rochdale grooming gang ringleader was released from prison this week. Ahmed, 73, was freed after serving 14 years of a 22-year sentence for child rape and other sexual offences.

Farage said in a post on X that Reform would repeal Section 7 of the Immigration Act 1971 if it entered government. He also said Pakistan should face visa restrictions if it refuses to take Ahmed back, presenting the case as a test of the party's immigration policy.

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