A Pakistani paedophile who claimed he didn't realise it was illegal to have sex with year-olds intends to use his conviction for grooming to help him claim asylum in the UK. Adil Sultan, 39, thought he was chatting to a schoolgirl online, where he encouraged her to send him explicit photos of herself and meet up with him for sex. But he was actually exchanging messages with the vigilante group Guardians of the North, who intercepted him and handed him over to the police. He has now been jailed for 17 months after pleading guilty to attempting to meet a child following sexual grooming. Newcastle Crown Court heard Sultan, who had posed as a year-old and used a fake online name, believed 'it was ok' to have sex with a girl of He now claims his conviction means he cannot return to his homeland, as anger over a recent child rape case means it is now unsafe for him. Sultan arranged a meeting with what he thought was a year-old girl but was instead confronted by vigilantes who turned him over to the police. After he was handed over police and pleaded guilty to a charge, Judge Penny Moreland sentenced him to 17 months behind bars with ten years sex offender registration and sexual harm prevention order.
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On August 11th, two weeks after Prime Minister Narendra Modi sent soldiers in to pacify the Indian state of Kashmir, a reporter appeared on the news channel Republic TV, riding a motor scooter through the city of Srinagar. She was there to assure viewers that, whatever else they might be hearing, the situation was remarkably calm. Modi, who rose to power trailed by allegations of encouraging anti-Muslim bigotry, said that the decision would help Kashmiris, by spurring development and discouraging a long-standing guerrilla insurgency. The change in Kashmir upended more than half a century of careful politics, but the Indian press reacted with nearly uniform approval. After the initial tumult subsided, though, the Times of India and other major newspapers began claiming that a majority of Kashmiris quietly supported Modi—they were just too frightened of militants to say so aloud.
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