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Thursday, February 12, 2026

The Origins of the Grooming Gangs - A brief history of how the grooming gangs arrived in England.


Steve Laws : There is always a lot of talk about the horrific crimes committed by the Pakistanis who have been imported, predominantly from the Mirpur region, but there is very little understanding of how they actually got here in the first place or why they were brought over.

The partition of British India in 1947 divided the subcontinent into India and Pakistan along religious lines, resulting in mass violence and the splitting of the Indus River Basin. India gained control of the headwaters of the eastern rivers (Ravi, Beas, Sutlej), while Pakistan inherited most of the downstream flow of the western rivers (Indus, Jhelum, Chenab), creating immediate disputes over water allocation.  

The Indus Waters Treaty was signed on September 19, 1960, in Karachi by Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Pakistani President Ayub Khan, with World Bank President Eugene Black as a witness.

After nine years of negotiations following the partition, the treaty resolved the bitter water dispute by dividing the six main rivers of the Indus Basin. India received unrestricted use of the three eastern rivers (Ravi, Beas, and Sutlej), while Pakistan was allocated the three western rivers (Indus, Jhelum, and Chenab), securing roughly 80% of the total annual flow for Pakistan.

The agreement required Pakistan to build a vast replacement infrastructure system to compensate for losing control over the eastern rivers, which had long irrigated large parts of Punjab and Sindh. This included constructing link canals to transfer water from the western rivers eastward, storage reservoirs, and major dams. The World Bank provided substantial financial support and mediation, making the treaty one of the most expensive water-sharing deals in world history at the time.

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