ISLAMABAD: A local NGO working for prisoners’ rights on Thursday claimed that India had kidnapped several Pakistani nationals in the recent years to prove their involvement in its state managed terror acts so as to accuse Pakistan as a terror-supporting country.
The Voice for the Human and Prisoners Rights (VH&PRs) fears that those still in Indian authorities’ secret detention could be used for ulterior motives, as Muhammad Ajmal was in the Mumbai attacks.
VH&PRs Chairman Chaudhry Muhammad Farooq told our sources here on telephone from Lahore that he would push for visas to visit Nepal and India so as to pursue his objective of exposing the Indian drama and recovering around 250 Pakistanis, who were taken into custody in Nepal, and several of them were languishing in India’s secret cells.
He brushed aside the Islamabad-based Nepalese envoy Bala Bahadur Kanwal’s rejection of his (Farooq) claim that Ajmal never visited his country and that he was not handed over to the Indian authorities. The VH&PRs chief pointed out the word ‘Kasab’ was added to Ajmal’s name by the Indians to prove him as a ferocious character, whereas he was a peace-loving citizen and a businessman.
Farooq said he had details of several other unfortunate Pakistanis, who had visited Nepal purely as tourists or for business purposes, but had landed in Indian agencies’ hands. In this connection, he mentioned Waleed Sajjad, who was presently in Lodhi Colony’s cell in New Delhi, managed by a police officer Mohan Chand Sharma.
Usually, he said, groups of five to seven Pakistanis often visited Nepal to boost their business opportunities, but unfortunately, several of them, about whom he had the data, were arrested from hotels in Kathmandu and later sent to the Indian jails.
He said Ajmal had visited Nepal in 2006 like many other Pakistanis, and his parents approached him in mid-2007. Farooq said he could manage to visit Nepal in February this year, where he filed a habeas corpus petition in the Nepalese Supreme Court and afterwards, notices were issued to the concerned parties. But he had to return home after he was told his life was under grave threat. Farooq instead had wanted to go to India as well on this count. Farooq wants to proceed to Nepal as early as possible to be a part of the hearings in the apex court there.
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