UK Bail Suspect Elected to Pakistan Assembly, Complicating Extradition

A man bailed in the UK on suspicion of raping and trafficking underage girls in the 1990s flew to Pakistan and won a legislative seat in Azad Jammu and Kashmir for PM Shehbaz Sharif's PML-N party. With no UK-Pakistan extradition treaty — the formal process for one country to surrender a suspect to another — bringing him back faces steep legal hurdles.