Rochdale grooming gang fiends could FINALLY be deported months after Pakistan refused to take them back
Fury erupted when Qari Abdul Rauf and Adil Khan ripped up their passports and Pakistan refused to take them back.
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The men were part of a nine-strong gang of Asian men convicted of sex offences against vulnerable girls in 2012.
Up to 47 girls as young as 12 were plied with alcohol and drugs and gang-raped across Rochdale during a two-year reign of terror.
Then-Home Secretary Theresa May ordered the pair to be sent back to Pakistan in 2014 as it would as it would be "conducive to the public good".
But ten years later, Rauf and Khan still remain in Rochdale where - horrifically - their victims are forced to live alongside them.
Rauf and Khan held dual British-Pakistani citizenship but were stripped of their British nationality.
A judge ordered both men to be deported to Pakistan nearly a decade ago.
However the men, two of Britain's worst grooming offenders, renounced their Pakistani citizenship days before an appeal against the order.
This meant they would be left "stateless" if they were kicked out of the UK, exploiting a loophole that allowed them to remain here.
But according to The Telegraph, a lifting of a ban on direct flights between Pakistan and UK could mean 'progress' in negotiations for deportation.
Sources for the Interior Ministry have previously said "progress" could be made if the UK were to take part in talks.
They also suggested returning direct flights to the UK by its national airline PIA, which were suspended for safety reasons, could help.
But UK officials previously said this suggestion had not been raised in discussions.
Rauf and Khan were ringleaders of a prolific grooming gang in Rochdale, which has been plagued by sexual exploitation.
Khan got a 13-year-old girl pregnant and trafficked another girl, 15, to others - using violence when she complained.
He was sentenced to eight years in 2012 and released on licence four years later.
Dad-of-five Rauf trafficked a 15-year-old girl and raped her in a secluded area before taking her to a flat in Rochdale where others had sex with her.
He was caged for six years and released in November 2014 after serving two years and six months of his sentence.
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