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West Yorkshire police say they are investigating 179 new cases of alleged child sexual exploitation in Bradford. The Police have announced they are investigating 165 suspects, amid fears of another scandal like that which hit Rotherham.Just last year, a gang of 12 Asian paedophiles from West Yorkshire were jailed for a total of 143 years after they passed a 13-year-old girl around for sex, with men literally queuing up to rape her.Michael Jameson, strategic director of Children’s Services at Bradford Council, told local media: “Child sexual exploitation is a horrendous crime and we work with police and other organisations to investigate and...

Pakistani police announced on Wednesday the capture of a leader of the outlawed Lashkar-i-Jhangvi Islamic militant group, which is linked to the killings of Westerners, Christians and Shiite Muslims. "Shabir Ahmed was arrested from his hideout in Multan," in central Pakistan, police superintendent Murid Hussain, said. It was not clear when he was captured. Ahmed, wanted in four separate cases of killings of followers of the minority Shiite community, had a Rs 1 million ($17,240) bounty on his head. He was a local leader of Lashkar-i-Jhangvi (LJ), meaning the 'warriors of Jhangvi', which was declared a terrorist organisation by the...