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    In another climbdown by Labour it seems flights are to resume by Pakistani airliners. They are banned for safety reasons.

    In May 2020 Pakistan International Airlines, PIA Flight 8303, an Airbus A320 from Lahore to Karachi crashed, killing 97 people.

    An inquiry found that 262 out of 860 Pakistan's pilots held fake or fraudulently obtained licenses.

    Pakistani ministers have now demanded that their flag carrier can resume flights to Britain in return for accepting grooming gang abuser deportations.

    3 Pakistani nationals guilty of grooming gang abuse are the subject of ongoing diplomacy between the British and Pakistani Governments.

    Labour ministers were told that Pakistan is concerned about deportation ‘floodgates’ opening.

    Foreign Secretary David Lammy pushed hard for these deportations but was ‘fobbed off’ by various Pakistan ministers.

    Ministers wanted a plan in place to deport them before Baroness Casey’s review was published.

    (The UK's allocated Official Development Assistance (ODA) budget for Pakistan was £41.54 million in the financial year 2023/24 and is expected to increase significantly to £133 million in 2024/25).

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