Adiyala missing prisoners: ISI denies torturing man to death in custody
In written comments filed before the Rawalpindi bench of Lahore High Court in response to a petition filed by Muhammad Bilal, brother of deceased Muhammad Amir, the ISI has maintained that the 25-year-old died of acute renal failure.
Amir was among 11 men who went missing after they were released from Rawalpindi’s Adiyala Jail last June.
Their relatives have alleged in their petition that the men were taken away from prison by the ISI after an anti-terrorism court acquitted them in four terrorism cases.
But the ISI maintain that the men were taken into custody from Fata after they were escorted from Adiyala Jail by terrorists impersonating as ISI officials. A private counsel hired by the ISI also denied that the man was in illegal custody.
ISI’s counsel informed the court that Amir was taken to the hospital for the second time in August and died the day after he was admitted. He said medical reports had confirmed that he had died a natural death. His body was handed over to relatives and he was buried in Rawalpindi.
The petitioner has requested the registration of a FIR against ISI officials in whose custody Amir died, considering the fact that Amir’s body bore marks of torture. He stated that doctors at the LRH had refused to conduct an autopsy. ISI’s counsel argued that since Amir died in Peshawar, the LHC did not have territorial jurisdiction and the petitioner would have to approach the Peshawar High Court.
In response to their petition in the Supreme Court, Bilal said the counsel had submitted that the 11 men were detained by agencies after they were arrested from Fata’s operative areas and will be tried under military laws.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 28th, 2011.
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And Pakistanis were dead against waterboarding in US prisons!
The ISI hands are clean. They never tortured or killed anybody. The "independent" judiciary should dismiss all such cases and put the relatives of the victims in jail for defaming the ISI/army. The ISI should be above the laws and courts of Pakistan. The must be treated with the same respect as the CJ of SC did when he expelled the chief law officer (attorney general) of Pakistan during the ISI testimony on Karachi in the SC hearing recently. The ISI activities and reports were kept secret not only from public but even from the elected govt. Even though the Karachi situation had nothing to do with Pakistani’s national security and there was no reason to keep it hush hush. The rule of deep state continues.