Pakistani gangs in the UK

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The first Pakistani gangs in the United Kingdom were formed in the 1960s to protect the pakistani community from skinheads. The biggest Pakistani gangs in the 1960s in Birmingham were the Lynx Gang in the small Heath, Alum rock and Lozells areas, and the Aston Gang in the Birmingham borough Aston. Both gangs had more than 1,000 members.

There had always been anti-racist and leftist skinheads from the beginning, especially in areas such as Scotland and Northern England. Some skinheads later came to appreciate black people due to their shared interests in ska, reggae and soul music, as well as rude boy culture and clothing styles.

However, parts of skinhead culture drifted towards nationalism and racist groups such as the UK's National Front. As the hairstyle has become mainstream, it is less wise than ever to predict political affiliations by hair or lack of it.

Some black and white skinheads were involved in what was called Paki bashing, which was random attacks on Pakistanis and other South Asians. In the beginning, the Pakistani gangs fought against black Caribbeans and British skinheads, some of whom had prejudices against Pakistanis.

As time moved on, the skinhead subculture died out to a certain extent and there was no enemy left for the Pakistani gangs. That's when the Pakistani and Caribbean gangs began to fight against each other. The Caribbean gangs started to overtake the drug business. The Pakistani gangs, which had a very much greater membership than the Caribbean gangs, started to discriminate against black people in Birmingham. Often newer black communities in the UK, such as the Somalis, have suffered from discrimination by Pakistanis, although they do not have any connection to Jamaican black people and are Muslims.

The biggest Pakistani gang in London is the Paki Pantherz, which is based in the east London boroughs Newham, Waltham Forest, Redbridge and Barking & Dagenham. It may have more than 2,000 members.The Paki Pantherz were one of the main gangs which allied with the sikh based gang the shere-E punjab in the high profiled lozell riots and have been known to the police for as much as 2 decades. Where other strong Pakistani gangs in London are concentrated heavily in east london and on a smaller scale south and west london.

As time went on, many of the Pakistani gangs, mainly of Kashmiri/Mirpuri origin, moved into the drug trade, especially in the areas such as Sparkhill, Alum rock and Saltley. There has been a notably large Pakistani gang presence in Bradford, Leeds and Manchester — which has had a dominant foothold in the heroin trade outside of London. Especially in the Midlands, there are large Mafia-styled Pakistani gangs. Notable are the Niazi Family in Birmingham and Bradford,the ' In the last few years there have been murders, in Tooting between rival Pakistani gangs. Most notably is the Wimbledon Boys Gang, mainly consisting of local tooting and wimbledon boys they are led by Tahir Hassan AKA Big T and his sidekick Raheel Butt, who some deem as the most lethal of muslim gangs and run a Club which is now investigated by Police for Illegal activity including drugs and weapons. Within Tooting there are other pakistani gangs, but most of the membership has died out, namely EBAF standing for Ernest Bevin Asian Front, formed by local school kids in the area, the Holy Fist, once the main rivals of the VPP, the PLO who were the first Pakistani gang in Tooting and south london. Most members of Tooting pakistani gangs are now either reformed characters or have joined the majority gang the VPP. Other parts of South london have pakistani gangs notably the Croydon boys and the club boys of Wimbledon. Luton where the pakistani community is vast, the gangs are mainly involved in the drug trade and are constantly in turf wars with rival gangs. These criminal cartels are based on their members' Pakistani tribes and their gang life is family based.

In Walsall, Pakistani gangs are known for what they call black-bashing. They use black-bashing in the same way that skinheads and some black Caribbeans used Paki-bashing in the 1960s.

In Pollokshields, Scotland the Pakistani gang "Shieldz" are known for their part in the murder of schoolboy Kriss Donald. Three members were jailed for up to 25 years. They are known for fighting with rival Asian gangs and the white gang McCuloch street team. Some locals have pointed out that "Shieldz" itself is a vague term which unites all the youths in Pollokshields. There is estimated to be well around ~500 "Shielderz". Though it is unknown, yet it's rumoured that there has been a high call out from Pakistani A2 gang members in London for all Pakistani gang members around the UK to unite as one power to be a great threat to outnumber all other felony gangs in UK which has highly alerted the London Metropolitan Police.

Article Researched and written by Tariq Baig and Tehreem Baig (Ex Gang Members)

Footnotes

Another prominent name in the 90's was Fat Zaf who they called the 'God Father'; but after the Brindle shooting and a collapsed trial, apparently, he has now turned to religion and has not been heard of since.

External link

• UK:Pakistani gangs are targeting us, say fearful black youths Daily Telegraph, 7 December 2003. Old news. Right-wing UK newspaper. Not quite Fox News but caveat PoV newsvendor
• List of gangs collected on the racist White Power forum White Pride World Wide - Stormfront. They are least well motivated, if not well equipped, to identify a list of potential gangs, but should not be considered a reliable source.
• Latin Pakistanis: read more about the Puerto Rico gangs in Pakistan

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