Pakistan

Another Faisal Shahzad?

Afp May 12, 2010

SANTIAGO: Chilean prosecutors on Wednesday, dropped a veil of secrecy over the case of Muhammad Saif-ur-Rehman Khan, a Pakistani citizen who was found with traces of explosives as he visited the US embassy to discuss a revoked visa.

Prosecutor Francisco Jasir issued a special decree that means no information about the police investigation can be released until after the interrogation process is complete or the suspect freed.

Chilean authorities on Tuesday extended the detention of Khan under the South American country's anti-terror laws.

Khan, 28, who has denied any terror ties, can be detained until Saturday without charge.

Experts found traces of a TNT explosive derivative on the young suspect's hands, cell phone, bag and documentation after he went through a security checkpoint on Monday, prompting embassy staff to notify police.

Khan insisted he did not know where the traces came from, and said that he was at the embassy only to renew his visa.

The State Department said in Washington that the embassy called Khan in, after revoking his US visa. It did not say why the visa had been revoked.

COMMENTS (23)

Saad Ahmed | 14 years ago | Reply If you really want to know the truth hear what Saif's nearones say about him, not just what the media is talking about. Improve your knowledge first before passing a judgement about someone. SURPRISE FROM NEARBY A number of people who had contact with the Pakistani (Saif) were surprised by the indictment to be interviewed. “He is absolutely a gentleman, very correct, like the ancient knights,” said Alex Garcia, head of reception and reservations of EuroHotel, where Khan made a practice of hotels. García is declared as the person who knows Khan because he worked daily with him for nearly a month, and was also an instructor of Spanish. Khan was born in Pakistan on August 21, 1982, is the son of a retired doctor and belongs to a middle class family, said Garcia. He arrived in Chile in January with the intention of studying Spanish and hospitality. “It is not the image of a terrorist. It is a friendly person, very respectful,” he told the AP the owner of the dormitory where he lived, who identified himself only as Gonzalo. “It was a quiet person who did not speak much because sometimes his Spanish was not very clear. In the kitchen shared with everyone,” he said. Gonzalo said Khan told him that he lived a few months in the U.S. and that his trip to Chile was motivated by learning Spanish. Garcia described him as “a very quiet, very correct, educated, speaks about five languages.” He noted that “one who is hotelier knows when another person knows the profession or not and Khan knows it. His dedication to service, very attentive.” Mohammed Rumi, secretary general of the Islamic community spokesman for the Chilean and As-Salam mosque, said Khan “came every Friday at the mosque, as all Muslims. No one person stood out because of conflict or problem, just the opposite, very quiet, very quiet. He related to everyone, talking to everyone, met his duties and left. “ http://www.latercera.com/contenido/6802591019.shtml

Malik Adeel Imtiaz | 14 years ago | Reply Smile of Innocent not guilty. What a Conspiracy. Salute you Muhammad Saif-ur-Rehman Khan.Pakistan is the secular state we are not extremist

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Saleem | 14 years ago | Reply We have to separate variables like disturbance & drivers from each other. Number of casualties or monetary damage is the value of the variable disturbance, as an example. The driver is what caused it, or the various variables within the chain reaction that caused the disturbance. I think the world cannot turn a blind eye to the drivers & spent all energies on dealing with disturbances or fires. This is called fire fighting mode, and it is a never ending mode by its nature. Drivers include such things like a legitimate sovereignty government kicked out of Afghanistan because they wanted evidence to release few of those who helped them in their fight with Soviet Union, the OBL bunch. One of the known Driver is, several hundred Afghans annihilated & displaced to a poor country like Pakistan. In fact almost all disturbances are caused by only few drivers & root causes. World needs to take care of these few drivers to control 80 percent of the disturbance in the world. The civilized world should list down all drivers of disturbance of the world and take care of it instead of fighting perpetual fires, which is a never ending process. The world has to respect everyone, stop humiliating the weak. Such are the drivers that the world needs to pay attention to bring peace. Nonetheless, the reaction of killing civilians is not justified any one, regardless,including the so the called civilized world or the terrorists.

Ali Bilal | 14 years ago | Reply Not a terrorist

abid | 14 years ago | Reply To all of you who are sarcastically saying that since when has Chile 'had it in for Pakistan' : Chilean police arrested him after a complaint by the American embassy staff. Now of course they had to arrest him at least when an embassy complains so its not that someone is saying that Chile was involved. Their police did what had to be done. It was the US embassy that 'had it in for Pakistan'

Hira Mir | 14 years ago | Reply Till Pakistan do not step on the terrorist within the country, people like him will be suspected on and will have to suffer as much as they can. Due to the Taliban we all have a badn name now. GOOD JOB crazy maniacs!

ali hamdani | 14 years ago | Reply Somebody remove the extremist elements from within the country and promote a secular state so that all this can stop. Lets wait a few more days so that the real story can evolve and we will know what this guy was upto. I think the image of Pakistanis is begin ruined and overseas people will have to suffer a hint of suspicion.

TL | 14 years ago | Reply traces? WOW!

Mariam khan | 14 years ago | Reply As if Khan would be stupid enough to be playing with TNT explosives and not even bothering to wipe the traces off his hands, cell phone and documentation! @Karachiite: Getting rid of an entire province that has been an integral part of Pakistan, is not a wise thing to do. Just because one part of your body is infected, doesn't mean that you amputate it. The key is to solve "the problems" here. Alienating our country men wouldn't get us far. Ever heard of "divide and rule concept?" Thats what's precisely happening with a province becoming independent.

Karachite | 14 years ago | Reply I have stayed abroad for quite sometime, police over there just dont pick people on intuition, there must be something that attracts attention. I am sure this guy must be under observation. It is time that we stop supporting pakistanis like these. Alarming thing to note is that all the these terrorist belong to one part of this country. Its high time that we get rid of this province before it does more damage to this country. All i know is that soil only grows guns, drugs, criminals and terrorist.

Shabah | 14 years ago | Reply @ Tarique Obviously, you don't live in Pakistan. Why don't you leave the matters of Pakistan to us Pakistanis who actually live in Pakistan instead of dictating us what to do while sitting abroad? In other words, please burn your Pakistani passport already and leave us in peace.

wazdan | 14 years ago | Reply Five American terrorists are in Pakistan custody no news in Western,American media.case proved against them with confession of USA agency directive.

wazdan | 14 years ago | Reply At least Media need something to feed, All lies are publishing strange phenomena

Chris Cork | 14 years ago | Reply Since when has Chile 'had it in for Pakistan'?

Tarqiue | 14 years ago | Reply So here comes our poor and wretched mentality,as earlier I have said sans unbiased analysis.Here in Western Media,they will pounce on Pakistan without even taking substantial effort to look deep into the case.And on the other side We Pakistanis even after knowing our Jihadi Culture and its heinous results will attribute this act to conspiracy theory

Tarqiue | 14 years ago | Reply Well the smile he is putting on his face makes him the protagonist of Black Comedy.

Tarqiue | 14 years ago | Reply Well,we can easily attribute all this to another conspiracy theory but the grim fact is that Pakistan has been land of these so called Mujhadeen since Afghan War. On both sides the rationality and unbiased attitude is missing.

abid | 14 years ago | Reply Well he's smiling because hes a celebrity now, just kidding. No but seriously, traces of TNT? You've got to be kidding me.

AHSAN | 14 years ago | Reply I personally think these two cases inclusding faisal shehzad at this time look like a propaganda to defame pak and put DO MORE pressure on pak,which can help so called war against terrosim(actually american war for their own hidden purposes) at afghan border...in case this is a true story,then we have to go in to the depth of the cause...when pakistani citizens are constantly victimized by the drone attacks,then these kind of reactive action will penetrate in to the minds of victim counry specially youngsters...

Ali | 14 years ago | Reply Pak govt should wakeup now and should stop working on US Agenda. We are sick of our govt who dont have any guts to stand up for its own peoples. State! What state?

Tanzeel | 14 years ago | Reply But why he's smiling ?

fahad | 14 years ago | Reply hehe......its almost funny.pakistanis are on hit list

Nadir El Edroos | 14 years ago | Reply Yeah, well the conspiracy theorists will have a field day! I mean, Chile has always had it in for Pakistan...just another maligned attempt by a Latin American country to defame Pakistan.

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