UK outsourcing torture to Pak
MPs Call For Probe As New Evidence Arises
Rashmee Roshan Lall | TNN & AGENCIES
The demand lends credence to rumours repeatedly circulating in the three years since the July 7, 2005, bombings that the British authorities have allowed, even encouraged, a few British citizens of Pakistani origin to be picked up and subjected to torture during interrogation.
John McDonnell, the Labour member for Hayes and Harlington, and Andrew Tyrie, Conservative member for Chichester, said the allegations should be examined by the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC), the Westminster body that oversees the Security Service, MI5, and the Intelligence Service, MI6.
The MPs’ made the demand after hearing accounts of three people being abducted and subjected to torture and, in some cases, released without charge.
In the first case, a medical student says he was abducted at gunpoint just a month after the July 7 bombings and held for two months at the offices of Pakistan’s Intelligence Bureau opposite the British Deputy High Commission in Karachi. The student claims he was whipped, beaten, deprived of sleep, threatened with execution and forced to watch other inmates being tortured.
The second case is of a taxi driver, Tariq Mahmood from Birmingham, who alleges he was abducted on October 23 in Rawalpindi and released five months later. His family suggested the hand of British and American security agencies in his abduction.
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