‘Tortured’ prisoner’s body arrives from India

[dabong1]

LAHORE, March 10: The body of a Pakistani man who had died in Indian police custody allegedly because of torture was handed over to Pakistan at Wagah on Monday.

The victim’s brother Abdullah, who had gone with other family members to receive the body, told reporters that Khalid Mahmood , 26, had gone to India in 2005 to watch a cricket match.

He said Indian intelligence agencies had arrested Khalid in Mohali when he was going to the Pakistan High Commission to report that he had lost his passport.

He said the family came to know about the arrest in 2006 from a letter sent by Khalid. His mother, sister and a bother went to India and filed an appeal in a court for his release but they had to leave for home within a week because of harassment by Indian intelligence agencies, he

said. This left the family unable to follow up the case.

He said the family came to know about Khalid’s death in police custody on March 4 but he had died on Feb 12, which could be verified by an autopsy.

He said Indian security agencies had ‘severely tortured’ Khalid because they considered him a spy.

He also criticised the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi for failing to secure his brother’s release.

He said the Indian government should be ashamed of such a brutal act, especially when Pakistan had released convicted spy Kashmir Singh.

The body was brought to Lahore for autopsy and Khalid’s relatives held a demonstration. They blocked the Nila Gumbad Road, burnt an Indian flag and chanted slogans against the Indian government.

The protesters urged the government to lodge a strong protest with the Indian authorities and pay compensation to the family.

Khalid’s funeral prayers will be offered in his village Dera Islamuddin, Baseen, on Tuesday.

Agencies add: Arif Awan, a lawyer for the relatives, said Khalid had been charged with spying and involvement in terrorism but he never appeared in a court.

He said the relatives wanted an autopsy because they suspected that he had been abused in custody.

Relatives who visited Khalid in a jail in New Delhi said his nails had been pulled off, his body bore torture marks and his eyes had sunk, according to his brother Inamul Haq.

We are giving spies back to India and they are returning our people after killing them, Mr Awan said.

An official of Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi told APP that it was informed on Feb 13 about the death and a letter was written the same day to the Indian external affairs ministry seeking details and the circumstances under which he had died. The Indian government had failed to provide any information, he said.
‘Tortured’ prisoner’s body arrives from India -DAWN - Top Stories; March 11, 2008


We send a spy back and the indian torture to death a cricket fan and send his body back.......confidence building measures.

Any other country would have at least sent a prisoner,alive and well back to pakistan as a gesture of goodwill.

Shall we still keep on fooling ourselves into believing the indians want a genuine, equal and peaceful relationship.

 

[BATMAN]

More than dozen Pakistani cricket fans are missing.
There relatives are also struggling to find them.

 

[never]

this shows how genuine the indians are all will ever be.
at every level, individual, socieatal and governmental they spew anti pakistani hatred, which is in essence anti muslim. thank ALLAH most high we dont live with them.
they killed this man, he had no trial, he was not convicted. it was extra judicial murder.

just imagine living in indian occupied kashmir or just being a simple muslim living in india. it is well known that he will have to pretend to be a hindu inorder just to live.
what a horrible place.

 

[Dynamic_Dynasty]

So much for NGOs and those dumb ***** with slogans of Bhai Chara, Friendship allllll BS. They dont deserve any of that, any Indian SPY found in Pakistan should be killed silently and shov them somewhere in a hole.

Any NGO or human rights show up with some sh* throw them in the same hole.

 

[dabong1]

Where have the indians gone.......?
If this had been a post about mr singh ,getting tortured to death and handed back to the indians....you would have had every indian who has ever been on this forum telling us how much they want peace/friendship but us "evil" pakistanis throw it back in there face.

Is there an indian out there ,willing to condem the indian govt for its barbaric and savage act.

 

[Astra]

Do you think that pakistani spies come to india having a placard "I am a pakistani spy" ?

Obviously the spies enter the enemy country as part of social, business, cultural and sports activities. They are undercover agents- and they need a COVER.

 

[Astra]

Where have the indians gone.......?
If this had been a post about mr singh ,getting tortured to death and handed back to the indians....you would have had every indian who has ever been on this forum telling us how much they want peace/friendship but us "evil" pakistanis throw it back in there face.

Is there an indian out there ,willing to condem the indian govt for its barbaric and savage act.

What about the brutal mutilation of 6 army soldiers who went to regular patrolling after the onset of summer in Kargil. The DGMO's of both sides discuss and come down during the winters, and when the army soldiers went for patrol they were apprehended and murdered after torcher.

What do you say about the hundreds of Indian fishermen caught and jailed in pakistan ?

Regd human rights, you konw what is happening in pakistan, lawyers are missing, army does not provide enough security for women and children who are killed regularly in bomb blasts, like in Lahore recently.

Read this:

Rights report slams action against judges -DAWN - Top Stories; March 12, 2008

 

[maqsad]

It is odd that this comes right after Kashmir Singh was released. Is India trying to send a message that they don't want any sort of peace by responding to an act of peace and reconcilliation with brutality, savagery and indifference? This is sickening.

 

[EagleEyes]

Do you think that pakistani spies come to india having a placard "I am a pakistani spy" ?

Obviously the spies enter the enemy country as part of social, business, cultural and sports activities. They are undercover agents- and they need a COVER.

Are you saying that the subjected person was a spy? Have some shame, lanat ho tum logon ke uper. Begherat log!

 

[Neo]

We are giving spies back to India and they are returning our people after killing them, Mr Awan said.

I say endorse the courtesy ten fold now!

 

[Neo]

Do you think that pakistani spies come to india having a placard "I am a pakistani spy" ?

Obviously the spies enter the enemy country as part of social, business, cultural and sports activities. They are undercover agents- and they need a COVER.

Did GoI or RAW actually got the prove that he was a spy?

 

[Neo]

Pakistan asks India to explain death of cricket fan ​

Wed Mar 12, 2008

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan has asked India to explain why one of its nationals, who went to India to watch a cricket match in 2005, was arrested and later died in an Indian prison, a Foreign Office spokesman said on Wednesday.

Khalid Mahmood, 30, died on February 12 but his family in Pakistan was only informed of his death on March 4, according to family members, who said he had been imprisoned as a spy and was tortured to death.

A Foreign Office spokesman said Indian authorities had not informed Pakistan about Mahmood's arrest until he died in what the spokesman said were mysterious circumstances.

"The death of Mr. Khalid Mahmood in custody should be condemned in the strongest terms," spokesman Mohammad Sadiq told a regular briefing.

"We approached ... Indian authorities to give us a detailed report of the circumstances, the reasons for which he was arrested, the circumstances of his death," he said.

Mahmood's body was sent back to Pakistan on Monday and one of his brothers told Reuters on Tuesday Indian authorities had not informed the family how his brother died but his body bore signs of torture.

The brother said Mahmood had lost his passport while in India to watch cricket and was later picked up by Indian police.

Old rivals India and Pakistan have improved their relations after nearly going to war on fourth time in 2002 but they are still deeply suspicious of each other.

On March 4, Pakistan released an Indian, Kashmir Singh, who spent 35 years on death row in Pakistan on spying charges but was released after President Pervez Musharraf accepted his mercy plea.

Sadiq said Singh had been released on humanitarian grounds and Pakistan had hoped the gesture would be reciprocated.

"It is very unfortunate that very soon we received a dead body of a Pakistani national from India," he said.

But Sadiq said the incident would not affect a peace process the neighbors launched in early 2004.

As part of the peace process, both sides began sending cricket teams to each other's country and thousands of fans have traveled back and fourth to watch the teams clash since then.

(Reporting by Augustine Anthony; Editing by Robert Birsel)

Pakistan asks India to explain death of cricket fan - Yahoo! News

 

[EagleEyes]

Did GoI or RAW actually got the prove that he was a spy?

They got no proof of anything, other than the MOST expected reasoning of assumptions.

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

If he was tortured, it is just not acceptable.

Even a spy should not be treated inhumanly.

I hold the same revulsion for this as I did when the mutilated bodies during the Kargil War was handed over buy Pakistan at Post 42.

Brutality and torture is not required in today's context where science and technology is available.

 

[IceCold]

Why are we getting upset about it? Is it the first time something like this has happened. We make their geniue spy agents into heros while they toture a cricket fan and kill him and then send his body back.
People talking about peace and mutual friendship and increasing bilateral relations should come out of their sweet dream, it time they smell the real coffee.