I dont know which is more horrible
Barbarian action done by few cave era tribal covering in name of Islam in Swat
State Terrorism of Israel with full backing of US which recently killed 1400 innocents including 600 women and children
or State terrorism of US , ‘champion’ of civil liberty and human rights in whole world
Not forgot about Afia Siddique also !
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Pakistani immigrant dies in US custody**
Updated at: 1900 PST, Friday, April 03, 2009
** NEW YORK: **The death of a Pakistani immigrant being held by US authorities underscores the serious violations of civil liberties suffered by the hundreds of non-citizens detained without recourse to legal due process in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Ahmad Tanveer, 43, died September 9, 2005 of apparent heart failure in his jail cell at Monmouth County Correctional Institute in Freehold, New Jersey. The facility holds some more detainees of all nationalities. A Nigerian cellmate discovered Ahmad Tanveer’s body lying face down on a cot and he wrote a letter to the US media informing of the silent death in American detention facility. Authorities did not publicly acknowledge the death until the next day.
Ahmad Tanveer was taken into custody on August 12, 2005 during the police roundup of hundreds of Arab, Muslim and other immigrants following the hijack/bombings of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said that Tanveer was not able to provide any information of value regarding the terrorist attacks and had voluntarily agreed to be deported. The US officials are constantly refusing to release information about detainees rounded up in the anti-terrorist dragnet and have made it difficult for those incarcerated to obtain legal counsel.
Attorneys complain of rampant mistreatment of the detainees. Ahmad Tanveer’s case underscores the secrecy and lack of legal accountability that continue to shield the system from independent oversight, despite years of escalating Congressional inquiries and new efforts by Obama administration appointees to promote transparency.
In New Jersey, as in many states, autopsy reports are private. But the county morgue confirmed that an autopsy had been performed. Eventually, two details were shared: the name of the Queens funeral home that picked up Tanveer’s for burial on Sept. 12, and the fact that the autopsy report was sent two months later to Mark Stokes, an official in the New York office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Yet for more than three years since, the tallies and testimony that the agency submitted to Congress about detainee deaths have not included the Tanveer case.
Interestingly enough - The director of the funeral home, Coppola-Migliore in Corona, Queens said that Tanveer’s New York relatives had his body flown to Pakistan for burial, using Pakistan International Airlines (PIA). But the funeral director declined to identify the relatives without their permission and said they had not returned phone calls. And the Pakistani Consulate had also no record of the case.
Even now, most questions about Ahmad Tanveer are unanswered, including just who he was and why he had been detained. The rescue of his death from oblivion took a rare mix of chance, vigilance by a few citizen activists, litigation by the civil liberties union and several months of inquiry by the newspaper. Even as the newspaper confirmed Mr. Tanveer’s death with jail officials, and tracked his body’s path from a Freehold morgue to the cargo hold of an airplane at Kennedy Airport, immigration authorities maintained that they could find no documents showing such a person was ever detained, or died in their custody.
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Pakistan has been raising concerns with the United States since long over the prolonged detention of hundreds of Pakistanis determined to be in the country illegally.**
