I dint knew that Pakistani ISI who have so much backing from the army , (most worked for Pak army) could be so cruel and corrupt for their own citizens. Imagine how they would treat non-Muslims or non citizens.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/GC04Df05.html
Pakistan-born Nasir, now 36, grew up in the United Arab Emirates after his family moved there when he was three years old. As a youth, his dream was to fly, and he took some lessons in the emirates. An instructor suggested he go to the United States to learn flying better, which he did, along with another young man, Abdul Hakim Murad. In the early 1990s they attended several flight schools in Texas and New York, where they roomed together and shared expenses.
Then Nasir moved to Corning in northern California. Murad stayed with him for two to three weeks, after which, says Nasir, Murad went his own way.
Murad is now serving life plus 60 years after being convicted in 1995 for plotting to blow up 11 US airliners over the Pacific Ocean and planting a bomb that killed a passenger aboard a Philippine airplane. Murad allegedly admitted connections to Osama bin Laden and the upper echelons of al-Qaeda.
In August 2002, apparently reneging on an agreement with Nasir, FBI agents handed him over to intelligence agents in Pakistan. He was ostensibly deported because he overstayed his visa. Prior to September 11, 2001, Nasir had submitting to a series of interviews with the FBI, and passed a lie-detector test. Pre-September 11, the FBI appeared convinced of Nasir’s claims that his only connection with Murad was a shared interest to learn flying. After the attacks, the FBI seemed to change its mind.
Nasir is married to Stephanie Jolley Mubarak, a US citizen, has two children, and ran an airplane repainting and commercial flying business in Corning prior to his deportation.
Nasir’s story
“You just have to go through newspaper material or surf the 'Net with my name and you will find that all say that Nasir is an innocent person. Yet I was deported from the US to Pakistan,” Nasir told Asia Times Online, while clutching copies of the San Francisco Chronicle and the Chico News and Review in which he is featured as the lead story.
“At the time of my deportation I thought that my bad days were over and I would be able to live happily in Pakistan, and then at a suitable time make another bid to go back to the US, where my wife Stephanie, my children Hina and Adnan, my business and my assets are. However, it [my return] turned out to be a horrible nightmare and a new episode of investigation which was more brutal in nature,” Nasir said with a shattered expression.
Nasir’s plight received wide attention in the US, and when he was arrested after being sent back to Pakistan some publications expressed surprise. The Chico News and Review carried comments by a Pakistani diplomat, Imran Ali, who said it was “very odd” for the US government to find someone suspicious, and then hand him over to the Pakistani government. Usually, he said, it worked in the opposite direction.
Nasir picked up his story. "Soon after I arrived at Islamabad airport I was picked up by ISI [Inter-Services Intelligence] officials. They blindfolded me with a hood and drove me to an unknown place. From the feeling of my feet I felt that it was some underground place. They uncovered my face and gave me a paper and pen to write my biography, especially the events from September 11 to August 2002, when I was sent to Pakistan.
“I suggested to them to refer to the Internet and call the relevant US authorities, who would tell them that I was innocent - that’s why they [the Americans] set me free. But my plainclothed ISI official said, ‘You are only here because US authorities asked us to interrogate you and report back to them.’”
Nasir continued: “After 28 days in detention I was informed that they were setting me free. I was so much broken in those 28 days that all my feelings burst out into a storm of tears and I questioned the officer, ‘What have you got by keeping me here when I told you in the first place all about my ordeals and that I was cleared by the US authorities?’ The officer patted me on my shoulder and said that I was clear from all scrutiny and would be able to lead the life of a normal person.”
Nasir then asked the officials to return his belongings, which included US$500, a gold chain, a digital camera and addresses in a diary, including contacts for his relatives. These were returned, although only $300 was given back. An ISI agent then asked him to hand over these dollars so he could change them in Pakistani rupees. Nasir gave him $100, and received only Rs2,000, when at market rates he should have gotten Rs6,000.
Nasir stayed in Islamabad and contacted his wife in the US and brothers in Dubai in the UAE, and they sent him some money. His wife traveled to Islamabad and persuaded him not to return to the US for a while and try to settle in Pakistan, the UAE or elsewhere to work as a pilot, and then she would join him.
Nasir failed to get a job in Pakistan, and in July 2004 he went to Malaysia to try his luck, but again without success. He explained the situation to his friends in the US, who advised him to apply for a US visa again and fight his case in the US.
He approached the US Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, which kept his travel documents and gave him a date for an interview. On the given date he appeared at the embassy, where he met with two officials in a private room.
“They opened a file and said that they knew each and everything about me and were sympathetic. They suggested that the only way they could help me get my life back in the US was if I helped them get a few Arabs who were mixed in with Tabligih Jamaat [a Muslim preaching group]. They suggested I spend some time in a mosque in Kuala Lumpur, and then I would get some leads to report back to US officials,” Nasir said.
“I agreed to the proposal, but on condition that they let me go to the US first, and then I would be ready to render all my services to them. I told them of my language proficiency in Arabic, but they already knew that and insisted that I start working in Malaysia, and then they would send me back. I turned down the proposal. They gave me time to rethink, and handed me RM1,000 [about $260], which I kept as I was nearly broke.”
Nasir went back to the US Embassy a few days later and insisted on his condition to be sent to the US, after which he would work as a FBI proxy in the Muslim community anywhere in the world. Embassy officials refused the proposal and Nasir left the building.
After walking about a kilometer he was picked up by Malaysian authorities. "They kept me for 10 days and kept asking why I was in the US Embassy. An officer informed me that he had special powers to grill me if I did not cooperate. He told me that he could keep me for two years in detention, and after that if again I lied to him he would send me to prison for four more years. And only after that would I have the rights to appear in a court of law. I was not ready to face this new ordeal, and again I spelled out each and every detail of my past, amid tears, to the officer. The officer silently stood up and went away.
“A few days later he came back and said the Americans had told the Malaysian authorities that I was a terrorist. But he said he had studied my case thoroughly and he had no problem setting me free. Up to then I had been quite comfortable in prison as the officer used to bring me good food and was very kind to me. He also gave me $200 when he set me free.”
After his release Nasir immediately caught a flight for Karachi, but as soon as he landed an ISI team picked him up. "This time the interrogation was very cruel and brutal. For several days I was denied sleep and not allowed to go to the loo. For three days I had flu, but I was not given any medicine. I was also interrogated by FBI officials.
"After 10 days of grilling, a Pakistani official came to see me and put a few questions to me, which included that I knew an Arab with the name of Khalid, whose address was written in my note book. I failed to recall anything and I requested the officer to bring my note book. This was given to me and I found the name Khalid with an email address, [email protected], in my handwriting. I accepted that I wrote the name, but I failed to recall when and where and who Khalid was.
“When the officer left my cell I tried to recall when and I wrote the name Khalid in my notebook, and the next day I remembered - when I was in the custody of US immigration I spent a few hours with a person named Khalid, and exchanged email addresses with him. I immediately asked the guards to call the officer so that I could explain everything, but he did not come. Then I persuaded the man in charge of the cells to call the officer. The officer then came and listened and then went out silently.”
Nasir said that after several days the officer came back and informed him that he would be set free in a few days. He suggested that Nasir stay in Karachi and try to make a career in the city.
“Again, I lost control of my tears and asked what have they got in keeping me for so long. The officer then asked, ‘Who was the fool who asked you to go to the US Embassy in Malaysia? They asked us to grill you as a suspect.’”
Nasir was set free with a few clothes, a little money and no destination. Roaming the streets of Karachi, often he slept on footpaths and was picked on by the policemen. Eventually, he was given a place by a tailor in Malir in his tiny shop, but soon the father of the tailor asked him to leave. Then a driver of a public bus allowed him to eat at his expense in the hotel where he now hangs out, and pass the nights in his bus.
Nasir took out a copy of the San Francisco Journal in which he is featured and pointed to the last paragraphs in the article, which gives an elaborate account of how his family had been destroyed by the ordeal and how his son Adnan had been distracted in his studies back in Corning.
Visibly fighting back his tears, Nasir showed a picture of his son and daughter in his empty house. “There is only one wish, to be the father of my children again and patronize them, otherwise there is darkness on all sides and suicide is the only option left in this life.”