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The Pakistan flag was raised for about half an hour to mark National Pakistan Day as has happened in the town for years, it's just pathetic for anyone to take strong issue with that or to link it to the child abuse scandal which is not a related incident. Of course that was awful and it should not be brushed under the carpet, there may well be a need to seriously look at attitudes within communities and law enforcement that enabled it to happen for so long. But it does not necessarily follow from that that suddenly any expression of Pakistani identity or celebration of diversity becomes inherently inflammatory and offensive