Pakistan, Feb. 8 -- Across the world, from the streets of northern England to the private islands of the United States, from the crowded cities of South Asia to the disciplined societies of East Asia, one uncomfortable truth unites every system and every culture: child sexual exploitation is not confined to any race, religion, or geography. It follows power wherever power is left unchecked. The language used to describe it varies, the politics surrounding it differ, but the victims are the same, and so is the institutional failure. In the United Kingdom, official inquiries such as the Jay Report estimated that more than 1,400 children were abused in Rotherham alone between 1997 and 2013, much of it linked to organised grooming networks. W...