“Asian” is generally used by Brits for anyone from the Indian subcontinent. They still use “Oriental” for someone from East Asia.
Given the event, you just knew Muslims were involved, so Pakistanis seemed more likely than Indians.
These cases are now several years old and there were other articles that acknowledged “Asians” was a cover for Pakistani Muslims.
And how the Muslim pimps and Muslim johns treated these girls like trash because they were not Muslim