Re: SC issue notices to ISI, MI chiefs over custodial killings
And this is their reply
Adiala prisoners’ case: Spy agencies’ counsel claims deaths were
Re: SC issue notices to ISI, MI chiefs over custodial killings
I think ISI could be under civilian control as there is MI that specifically deals with military threats.
ISI's performance has eroded, as we can see from bombing of its headquarters and all sorts of foreigners roaming around Pakistan, so it should be regularized like CIA. Right now, ISI is run like Frontier Corps, another mess, with army men coming on deputation for few years.
Re: SC issue notices to ISI, MI chiefs over custodial killings
http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/31/sc-orders-production-of-suspects-picked-up-by-agencies.html
SC orders production of suspects picked up by agencies
Our Staff Reporter | Front Page | From the Newspaper
(1 hour ago) Today
Supreme Court of Pakistan. – File Photo
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court came down hard on the counsel of the chiefs of ISI and MI on Monday and ordered immediate production of suspects picked up by intelligence agencies for their alleged involvement in the October 2009 attacks on the GHQ and ISI’s Hamza Camp in Rawalpindi.
The counsel representing directors general of the Inter Services Intelligence and Military Intelligence had earlier assured the court that the 11 prisoners, who mysteriously went missing from outside the Rawalpindi’s Adyala Jail the day they were acquitted of terrorism charges, would be tried under the Army Act of 1952.
A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry stated pointedly that four of the prisoners were later found dead in mysterious circumstances outside the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar while the whereabouts of others were still not known.
On Jan 6, the court had disposed of a joint petition on the assurance that the prisoners would face the Field General Court Martial under the Army Act, 1952. The whereabouts of the prisoners were revealed when the two spy agencies conceded before the court that they were in their custody claiming that the 11 men had been recovered from terror camps.
The prisoners were wanted for different acts of terrorism, including a rocket attack on the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex in Kamra, anti-aircraft shots fired at a plane carrying former president Pervez Musharraf, suicide attacks on the bus of an intelligence agency in Rawalpindi, attack on the GHQ, bomb attack on the Rawalpindi Parade Lane mosque and attacks on different military installations, besides killing a number of senior army personnel.
Outside the court, the counsel faced harsh questions from newsmen and was jeered by family members of the missing prisoners.
When the court took up a petition of Ruhaifa, mother of three civilians picked up by the agencies (one of her sons was later found dead), Advocate Raja Mohammad Irshad, representing ISI and MI chiefs and Judge Advocate General (JAG) Branch sought time to submit a reply, stating that he had been engaged only a few days ago.
Of the 11 prisoners, four were in the Lady Reading Hospital, three in an internment centre, Parachinar, established under In Aid of Civil Power Regulation, 2011, the counsel said and claimed that they were not in ISI’s custody, but of the provincial government. Other four have died.
When Justice Khilji Arif Hussain asked under what law the prisoners were killed and left by a roadside, the counsel said these were wild allegations.
Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry repeatedly asked the counsel to produce rest of the prisoners before the court because the government had given their custody to the agencies.
“The Supreme Court is directing you to produce them because apparently there is a breach of Article 9 of the Constitution (security of person) as no-one is above the Constitution,” the chief justice observed. Lift them through a helicopter whatsoever and produce them before the court on Tuesday, he said.
However, the counsel suggested that the court might appoint someone to go and meet them in the hospital.
“Country’s prime minister has come to this court and you are saying they cannot be produced,” the chief justice said.
“The prime minister has not done a favour and appeared because he was an accused,” the counsel replied tersely.
“Give us in writing and we will see who is opposing the production of these prisoners,” the chief justice observed again.
At this the counsel assured the court that the prisoners would be produced in whichever manner they were in.
The court, however, ordered the counsel to file a reply, explaining the circumstances under which four prisoners had been killed and respond to the allegation against the respondents (intelligence agencies) and produce the seven prisoners before the court on Feb 9.
The court ordered the counsel to arrange, if possible, a meeting of relatives of the prisoners who were in hospital.
The court also issued a notice to Attorney General Maulvi Anwarul Haq.
Re: SC issue notices to ISI, MI chiefs over custodial killings
No one to stop them.
Even after so many years they can not prove any thing against them. What is the difference between Kuffar and our so called muslims brothers 
Re: SC issue notices to ISI, MI chiefs over custodial killings
http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/31/free-ride-for-killers-in-shahzad-commission-report-hrw.html
Free ride for killers in Shahzad report
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Slain journalist Saleem Shahzad — File Photo
NEW YORK / ISLAMABAD,: The government of Pakistan should redouble efforts to find the killers of journalist Saleem Shahzad, following the failure of the judicial inquiry commission to identify those responsible, the New York-based Human Rights Watch said on Monday. The commission concluded in its January 10, 2012 report to the government that the police had failed to question Pakistan’s military intelligence officials in its criminal investigation.
Shahzad, a reporter for the Hong Kong-based Asia Times Online and for Adnkronos International, the Italian news agency, disappeared from central Islamabad on the evening of May 29, 2011. His body, bearing visible signs of torture, was found on May 31, near Mandi Bahauddin, 130 kilometres southeast of the capital. The circumstances of the abduction raised concerns that the feared Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency was responsible. In June 2011, the Supreme Court, at the request of the government, instituted a commission of inquiry into the killing.
“The commission’s failure to get to the bottom of the Shahzad killing illustrates the ability of the ISI to remain beyond the reach of Pakistan’s criminal justice system,” said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch. “The government still has the responsibility to identify those responsible for Shahzad’s death and hold them accountable, no matter where the evidence leads.”
The ISI, the HRW said, had a long and well-documented history of abductions, torture, and extrajudicial killings of critics of the military and others. Those abducted are routinely beaten and threatened, their relatives told not to worry or complain as release was imminent, and then released with the threat of further abuse if the ordeal is made public. The HRW says Pakistani and international human rights organisations, including Human Rights Watch, have extensively documented the ISI’s intimidation, torture, enforced disappearances, and killings, including of many journalists.
The five-member commission, which included two judges, two senior police officers, and one journalist, convened on June 21, 2011. Over six months it interviewed 41 witnesses, including Shahzad’s family members, journalists, senior ISI officials, and others. It also conducted an extensive examination of documents, including relevant emails, telephone records, and investigation reports, as well as reports by previous similar commissions.
Among those interviewed were Ali Dayan Hasan of Human Rights Watch and Hameed Haroon, president of the All Pakistan Newspaper Society (APNS) and publisher of the Dawn Group. Each had received emails from Shahzad in 2010 complaining of threats by ISI agents for his reporting on links between the ISI and Al Qaeda. On October 19, 2010, Shahzad sent an email to Human Rights Watch outlining his meeting with the ISI and asking for the email to be released “in case something happens to me or my family in future”. Shahzad sent the same email and information about other threats to Mr Haroon, and to colleagues at Asia Times Online.
ISI officials maintained to the commission that Shahzad had cordial relations with them until shortly before his killing. The commission concluded that the Pakistani state, militant groups including the Taliban and Al Qaeda, and unnamed ‘foreign actors’ could all have had a motive to kill Shahzad on the basis of his writings.
“The commission appeared fearful of confronting the ISI over Shahzad’s death,” said Mr Adams. “Shahzad had made it clear to Human Rights Watch that should he be killed, the ISI should be considered the principal suspect. He had not indicated he was afraid of being killed by militant groups or anybody else.”
Human Rights Watch said the investigation’s weakness was exemplified by the failure to interview another journalist, Umar Cheema, who was abducted, tortured, and then dumped 120 kilometres from his residence in Islamabad in September 2010. Cheema alleged that his abductors were from Pakistan’s intelligence agencies. It is inexplicable that the commission failed to seek Mr Cheema’s testimony despite his very public allegations against the ISI and repeated offers to testify before the commission, Human Rights Watch said.
“At great personal risk, scores of journalists, human rights activists, and others presented themselves before the commission to offer accounts of ISI and military involvement in human rights abuses,” Mr Adams said. “The commission repaid this courage by muddying the waters and suggesting that just about anyone could have killed Shahzad.”
The commission’s recommendation that all intelligence agencies should be made accountable through “parliamentary oversight” and judicial redress should be promptly implemented by the government through appropriate legislation, Human Rights Watch said. The commission also recommended that “the balance between secrecy and accountability in the conduct of intelligence gathering be appropriately re-adjusted” and a “statutory framework carefully outlining their respective mandates and role” be developed. It also urged that the intelligence agencies’ “interaction with the media be carefully institutionally streamlined and regularly documented”.
‘State within state’
“ISI abuses will only stop if it is subject to the rule of law, civilian oversight, and public accountability,” Mr Adams said. “It is the government’s duty to insist on such accountability and the military’s duty to submit to it. The ISI needs to stop acting as a state within a state.”
Human Rights Watch expressed grave concern that the commission found it appropriate to recommend that the “press be made more law-abiding and accountable through the strengthening of institutions mandated by law to deal with legitimate grievances against it.
“It is perverse to use an investigation into the killing of a journalist as a way of limiting press freedom,” said Mr Adams.
Brig Gen Zahid Mehmood of the ISI told the commission that the ISI/ISPR (Inter Services Public Relations) and other agencies “should stop patronising and protecting ‘favourite’ journalists”. Government payoffs to journalists not only distorts the news reaching the public, but the withdrawal of such patronage and ‘protection’ can result in threats and violence, said journalists who spoke to the commission.
Human Rights Watch called on the government to pass legislation to prohibit the country’s security and intelligence agencies to end the practice of the ISI and other agencies planting agents in media organisations or providing secret payments to journalists to write or not write stories.
“Journalists are under attack from all directions in Pakistan, including by the military,” said Mr Adams. “This murderous free-for-all will only end when the government can protect journalists from militants and its own intelligence agencies. Arresting the killers is the best way to do that.”
In Islamabad, despite many efforts, ISPR Director General Major General Athar Abbas could not be contacted for his comments.
Re: SC issue notices to ISI, MI chiefs over custodial killings
Now this is getting too much.. Grade 4 children picked up for terrorism. Are we waiting for their corpses? Who will control these agencies/and when ???
PHC CJ warns spy agencies of criminal cases
Akhtar Amin
Wednesday, February 01, 2012
PESHAWAR: Peshawar High Court (PHC) Chief Justice Dost Muhammad Khan on Tuesday warned that criminal cases would be registered against the heads and officers of intelligence agencies if forced disappearance of citizens weren’t halted and legal procedures not adopted for detained missing persons.
**He issued the warning in the case of two missing students when the Judge Advocate General of the Pakistan Army, Colonel Noor Muhammad, and Deputy Attorney General, Muhammad Iqbal Mohmand, expressed ignorance about the whereabouts of the students.
At the previous hearing, the agency education officer and principal of the school had replied to the court on oath that the students were indeed taken away by the security agencies. **
Shan Bibi, the mother of the students, had filed a habeas corpus petition in the high court, claiming that security forces had picked up her sons, Said Nazeem and Ajaz, students of Grade IV and V respectively, from Government Primary School, Lali Jan Killay in Bara tehsil on January 1, 2010. She claimed her sons were minors and not involved in any terrorist activity.
Aurangzeb Khan, counsel for the petitioner, reminded the division bench, comprising Chief Justice Dost Muhammad Khan and Justice Mian Fasihul Mulk, that on October 13, 2011 another bench of the high courthad passed an order in the missing students’ case and directed the respondents, including security agencies, to produce the students before the court within 15 days or else face criminal cases.
“This is too much. The security agencies are taking the writ of the high court lightly and this attitude will force the court to order registration of cases under Section 365 (kidnapping) read with 342 of PPC (Pakistan Penal Code) against the ISI, MI and IG FC,” the chief justice observed.
He added that spy agencies were undermining the writ of the court, but should know it was his duty under the constitution to protect the life and liberty of the citizens.** “Don’t force the people to come out on the streets against you as it will be dangerous for you and the country as well,” the chief justice warned.**
He said under-trial prisoners arrested on terror charges were also handed over to the army while thousands were already languishing in illegal detention. “I have ordered sub-ordinate judges not to go internment centres for granting custody of the prisoners. It is a fact that security forces have rendered sacrifices in the war on terror, but their excesses are not tolerable,” he observed.
He said that the court had also asked the governor and chief minister of the province to convene a meeting of the heads of the intelligence agencies to look into the matter, but they were not interested in civil liberties and thus did not convene a meeting in this respect.
The court had summoned IG Frontier Corps in the missing students’ case, but Major Zafar Iqbal appeared in the court. He informed the bench that the students were not in the custody of any security agency.
In another missing person’s case the bench directed SP Cantt Mian Mohammad Saeed and ASP Cantt Faisal Shehzad to produce the missing person within 14 days or face registration of FIR under Section 365 PPC.
Re: SC issue notices to ISI, MI chiefs over custodial killings
^^^ This is sad and disgusting. They are no better than the terrorists.
Re: SC issue notices to ISI, MI chiefs over custodial killings
^^^ This is sad and disgusting. They are no better than the terrorists.
Rather their action made many terrorist. :(
I used to live in same neighbour hood as one of the 11 convicted, we used to play cricket together, the man was a muttaqi person and very pro pakistan army. Now if he ever comes back alive he would never be the same, thanks to these agencies.
Re: SC issue notices to ISI, MI chiefs over custodial killings
Shame on them.. ISI lawyer claiming the four people who were in the custody of the agencies died simultaneously due to some unknown disease. What do they think.. the whole world is stupid???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nWqnwpuQ9_o#!
Re: SC issue notices to ISI, MI chiefs over custodial killings
muhafiz howay jis qaum ke lootnay waalay
uss qaum ka koi aur dushman kewn ho
Re: SC issue notices to ISI, MI chiefs over custodial killings
muhafiz howay jis qaum ke lootnay waalay uss qaum ka koi aur dushman kewn ho
This is the problem in almost all cases, the military at some stage admits the people are with them but later after killing them dump their body somewhere and then claim ignorance in the matter.