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Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp says Pakistan should be "forced" to take back Shabir Ahmed, the Rochdale grooming gang leader, as Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood prepares to to set out plans to change the law to deport him. Pakistan has so far refused to accept Ahmed. Report by Johals. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00We need to force Pakistan to take back Shabir Ahmed and other foreign criminals.
00:04Look, if the UK citizen commits a crime or is illegally in another country, we take back our citizens.
00:10We should expect Pakistan and other countries to do the same.
00:13And if they don't, we should start by, number one, suspending all foreign aid payments.
00:18And secondly, suspend visas.
00:21So stop issuing visas for Pakistani citizens to come into the UK if the government of Pakistan won't take back
00:27its own citizens.
00:28And if we did those two things, I think pretty quickly, Pakistan and indeed other countries who refuse to take
00:33back their own citizens would change their mind.
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