ISI victimizations

Victims of Pakistan ISI under General Musharraf
This page has been launched as a result of a reader's suggestion. His self-explanatory messages is given below.
If you happen to know about any victim of ISI's kidnapping, torturing or killing, or you have some information on corruption and repression of Pakistan military against its own people, please pass it on to us for updating the following list and our page on Dictatorship Watch.
While reading the following reports from various sources, please keep in mind that this doesn't expose even a fraction of the ground realities. For example, the Janaury 22, 2007 report of Daily The News hints to abduction of two journalists "from the premises of Hayat Abad police station," but you won't find any detail as to what were the journalists doing in the police station and how were they kidnapped from there.
Repression at the hands of the ISI and other agencies is not a secret. For example, PPP leader Raza Rabbani raised the issue of missing persons in parliament on Janaury 22, 2007 and accused the state of kidnapping the people and keeping their families in the dark about their whereabouts. He said, “the families of those persons are sitting in the cold outside the Parliament House and no minister has the courage to go to them," yet none of the so-called political leader, other than Imran Khan, had the courage to, at least, meet the protesting families.
The idea behind this page is absolutely not to target Pakistan army and hurt Pakistan, which is the agenda of those who are using General Musharraf to weaken and undermine Pakistan's military strength. There are many wrongs within the army and ISI, but still we do not intend to give weapons to our enemies to further target us. It may seem that inadvetently, we are serving the cause of Indians and Israelis by mailinging the ISI. It must be pointed out that the objective is to target General Musharraf, the root of all evils. There are many goood things done by ISI and MI too. They are as good and bad as their master and leaders but as institutions we intend to support them and save them from falling to the extent that our military personnel feel embarassed in their uniform at public places. Also see the note at the end of this page to further understand the objective behind this effort.
Thanks.The ICSSA
Latest reports are added at the bottom of the page
The message:
From: Muhammad Khan Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 4:05 PMTo: director@icssa.orgSubject: People kidnapped by ISI
Dear Jan Sahib,
Assalam alaiekum
I recently came from Pakistan after a visit of few weeks..
I heard a lot about ISI kidnapping Pakistanis mostly non Punjabis and who are tortured and latter no where to be found. Some cases have come in the newspapers.
Many haven't. On the top of it ISI openly brags that it can kidnap anyone just like a badmash of the street. Neither many Pakistanis know it nor do people outside the world. The information about disappearance can be passed to http://www.killinghope.org who has written a good book "Killing hope. ISI is working with Mossad and RAW against Pakistan and Pakistanis. Yes because it works under CIA,the other side of the coin is Mossad which shares its info with RAW and these Generals whose brains is not in their head but in heels don't even know it.
It will be a good idea to make a site or a section on your site and list people who have disappeared in Pakistan with their pictures. Periodically this information can be passed on to human rights groups, Pakistani newspapers in US/Canada/Uk and to local newspapers. At least fear of embarrassment will prevent hopefully from such more acts to happen. This will be a good service.
Today I read your article in" Daily Muslims" and in informationclearinghouse.info .
I noticed another thing. In Pakistan Generals, Brigadiers after being retired are appointed as director Generals in civil departments. This is blocking the growth of civilians who work whole life in the hope. The retired army people earn full pensions plus also the salary and benefits in the new civil position and it doesn't end there. They then push corruptions to make money as fast as possible and as much as possible.
There is a big need for awareness and once that happens then army may feel restrained to some extent.
Army has sacrificed the tomorrow of nation for their today. At least in India ,the army people retire and go back to their villages etc but are not rewarded with the civilian positions of huge salaries and benefits.
Truly.Muhammad Khan MDNew York.
Victims
Details

Rana Sanaullah Khan
Rana Sanaullah is PML-N MPA from Faisalabad. Picked up from outside his lawyer's chamber in Faisalabad by plainclothesmen and beaten up once again. He was first roughed up in police or military custody soon after the Musharraf takeover. His sin: saying a few harsh things about the army at a meeting of PML-N MPAs at the Lahore residence of Pervez Elahi.
March 8, 2003. See Human Rights Commission of Pakistan report
See Human Rights Watch Report
Hayatullah Khan,
Miran Shan
Killed June 16, 2006.
Abducted December 2005.
See details
Mukesh Rupeta and Sanjay Kumar
Karachi
Was missing since March 6, 2006.
See details
Geo TV correspondent Mukesh Rupeta and assistant cameraman Sanjay Kumar were freed on bail today after being held secretly since 6 March 2006, probably by Pakistani military intelligence agents.
Also see: Reporters Sans Frontier Report June 23, 2006.
Students Kidnapped by ISI
Baluchistan
March 2006.

ISI intimidating Sanaullah Baluch, kidnapped his brothers
Baluchistan
Intelligence is not new in Balochistan , however it has come to our attention that even kin of prominent leaders are not spared these days as demand for greater autonomy increases . This time it is brothers of Prominent Baloch leader Senator Sanaullah Baloch who were kidnapped by secret services .
See details
Mr.Munir Mengal
Quetta
Was kidnapped by ISI when he arrived from gulf, where he was about to start Baloch Voice a Satellite Television for Balochis.
See details
Asif Baladi
Sindh
Sindhi ‘intellectual,’ a leader of a national rights movement.
See Kawasjee's report in Daily Dawn, July 9, 2006.
Also see another report here, from South Asian, .July 24, 2006.
Also see: Ardeshir Cowasjee, "We need to know, general," Daily Dawn, July 16, 2006.

Saleem Baloch,
Rauf Sasooli,Saeed Brohi,Munir Mengal,Askari Raza,Tariq Alam, Brahim Saleh,Afaan LeghariMumtaz Hussain
Two nephews of Jamhoori Watan Party chief Nawab Akbar Bugti
See Report.
Detention cases: SHC wants details of government efforts
Daily Times, July 21, 2006.

Brahim Swaleh
Karachi
Estate Agent.
Court summons Sindh Intelligence chief on Baloch abductions.

Shafqat Ali Inqalabi Engineer
Rawalpindi
Chairman KSO had been kidnapped by ISI from Rawalpindi on 5th Jan 2005 and released after 4 hours of intensive mental and physical torture. He was threaten to change his behaviour. He was asked about Wajahat Hassan the Chairmna of APNA in interrogation. This was also known that Wajahat has receive many threatening calls from ISI, specially after the seminar of 2nd Jan 2005 in Rawalpindi Press Club by Thinkers Forum. Inqalabi has decided to hold Press Conf tomorrow on 7th Jan 2005 against the ISI designs. This is the second time when Inqalabi has been kidnapped by ISI. Last year he was also kidnapped from Rawalpindi and released in Queetta along with Ghazi Anwar. Ghazi Anwar is stil missing.

Muzaffar Ejaz, managing editor of the Urdu-language Karachi daily Jasarat.
Karachi
Mr. Ijaz was kidnapped by Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) officials for several hours and threatened with reprisals if he continued to criticise the government of President Pervez Musharraf.
See Reporters Sans Frontier Report (July 29, 2002): A managing editor threatened and kidnapped by the intelligence services in Karachi.

Journalists Amir Mateen, Rauf Klasra and Ansar Abbasi were harassed by the ISI, and the most famous of them, Shaheen Sehbai, had to flee the country.
Islamabad
See Reporters San Frontier 2003 report: http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=6480

Ghulam Hasnain, journalist working for the US news weekly Time.
Mr. Hasnain returned home on 24 January 2002 after being reported missing for two days. He refused to tell the press what had happened. A fellow journalist in Karachi said he was in a state of shock. No one claimed responsibility for this abduction and the authorities never commented on it. Several Karachi journalists said they thought Hasnain had been the victim of intimidation by the ISI. His wife, a journalist with the daily Dawn, said she had received a call on 23 January from the special police (government security service) who had questioned her about her husband’s past and political sympathies. See Reporters San Frontier 2003 report: http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=6480

Ansar Abbasi, The News bureau chief. in Islamabad,
Islamabad
Mr. Abbasi was threatened on 6 June, 2003 in the presence of witnesses by Gen. Talat Munir, head of the civilian intelligence agency called the Intelligence Bureau. Abbasi had contacted him about the harassment of one of the newspaper’s reporters, Rauf Klasra, by the security services. Gen. Munir responded: "You will also have to give an accounting of your actions. You will have to dig your own grave." The newspaper’s editor got in direct contact with President Musharraf after being informed of the incident. Abbasi told Reporters Without Borders that Munir’s threat probably alluded to his critical reporting on Pakistan’s security services. A few week earlier, ISI agents prevented Abbasi from entering government buildings and an officer questioned relatives about his activities.
Reporters San Frontier 2003 report: http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=6480

Amir Mateen, an investigative journalist with The News.
Islamabad
was the target of intimidation in early September after writing several reports on the government’s suspected intention of rigging the general elections on 10 October, 2003 a fear voiced by opposition parties. Mateen’s phones were tapped and he was followed by ISI agents. His colleagues and relatives were also harassed. He told the secretary for information Anwer Mahmood what was happening, and he filed a complaint against persons unknown at an Islamabad police station. The police received the complaint but did not open an investigation. While in New York in the second week of September, information minister Nisar Memon pledged to journalists there that he would personally look into the case, but Mateen was never contacted by any government official. He was openly threatened at the end of September by ISI agents who told him he had "learned nothing" from the treatment received so far and warned that, given his heart problems, he might not be able to stand "a day of torture."
Reporters San Frontier 2003 report: http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=6480

Khawar Mehdi Rizvi
Granted another five years as president in a 2002 referendum marred by irregularities, Musharraf authorised the secret detention and torture of Khawar Mehdi Rizvi, a fixer for the French magazine L’Express, in 2003 after Rizvi assisted an investigation into a Taliban group on the Afghan border.Source: Reporter Sans Frontier 2004 Report. He was detained in ISI Islamabad offices. See Reporters Sans Frontier Report January 12, 2004.
Also see report of International Federation of Journalists.

Amir Mir
Investigative journalist Amir Mir was fired from the Weekly Independent in June 2003 as a result of pressure by Musharraf, who accused him of tarnishing Pakistan’s image. Mir’s car was set on fire in November.
Source: Reporter Sans Frontier 2004 Report

Abid Saqi


Saeed Sarbazi
"The fifth case of disappearance of journalists in Sindh over the past six months, while four journalists were killed and an equal number of mediamen were victimised by being implicated in concocted cases as punishment for covering events and exposing the high-handedness of the state machinery."(Dawn Report, September 22, 2005) Report Achieved Here

Safdar Sarki
"'This year, on February 24, he disappeared from Karachi. His driver, Munir Sarki, would later tell the press and the Sindh High Court that he saw Safdar blind-folded, handcuffed and beaten, picked up from his apartment in Gulshan-e-Iqbal, taken away by the people of the ‘agencies.’ Sindhi newspapers are full of the minute details as to what happened."
By Ardeshir Cowasjee, "We need to know, general," Daily Dawn, July 16, 2006.

Moazzam Begg
Was abducted by ISI and US agencies from his home in 2002. Was sent to Bagram, Qandahar and then Guantanamo without committing any crime at all. Moazzam Begg was born and raised in Birmingham, England, where he now lives with his family. See details in The Open Democracy, October 5, 2006.
Ghaffar Lango
Daily Dawn. October 17, 2006.
Woman Call for brother Release
QUETTA, Oct 16: A woman has asked the judiciary, political parties and international human rights organisations to take note of what she termed illegal detention of her brother by the ISI. Addressing newsmen at the Quetta Press Club on Monday, she alleged that her brother Ghaffar Lango had been arrested by the ISI from Mastung on June 27, along with one Abdul Nabi. She said Nabi, who was later released, informed them that they had been detained at the ISI Centre on Ghalib Road Cantonment and tortured. She said that according to Nabi, her brother was still in the ISI custody. She said that tribal elders had constituted a committee which would meet representatives of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and political parties asking them to raise their voice against the ‘illegal detention’.—Correspondent

Sohail Qalandar
Editor of Daily Express, Missing since January 5, 2007. This newspaper published several of the reports, which highlighted ISI's illegal kidnapping and detentions. some of the reports are given below.
Niaz Mohammed
Reporter of Daily Express. This newspaper published several of the reports, which highlighted ISI's illegal kidnapping and detentions. some of the reports are given below.
Shah Abdul Aziz
In the picture is Shah Abdul Aziz, member of national assembly, whose brother Mahboob Ilahi is missing since August 2006. Shah Abdul Ziz told reporters on December 23, 2006 that ISI has illegally detained his brother. See BBC report here.
C. M. Farooq
A prominent human rights activist who campaigned against alleged detentions by Pakistani intelligence agencies disappeared yesterday, his family and police said. Gulf News, January 27, 2007.
BBC Report: Attorney for missing persons goes missing
January 26, 2007. 22:48 GMT 03:48PST By Ali Salman BBC Urdu.com Lahore.
Khalid Khawaja
Khalid Khawaja worked with ISI in the past. Lately he started working for the recovery of the missing persons - people who have been abducted and illegally detained by ISI. Mr. Khalid was closely working with a Human Rights Organization in Islamabad. he was picked up on Janaury 26, 2007, while he was going for early morning prayers to a local mosque. he was kept in ISI's detention all day. He was brought to Aabpara police station at night and charged with some cooked up charges of distributing material that could pose a threat to law and order situation. See BBC Report, confirming his abduction and detention by ISI.
Imran Munir
Imran Munir is is missing from islamabad since July 28, 06. His name is added to the list on the request of his mother to the ICSSA on February 24, 2007. Picture and further details are awaited.

The following pictures are taken from the palycards displayed by relatives of the missing persions in a protest rally on March 8,2007.Any related information (such as their names, the date since they disappeared) will be appreciated. Please write to director@icssa.org
Illegal detentions in Pakistan is nothing new
A document from January1998. By Hina Jilani, "Human Rights and democratic Development in Pakistan."
Quote: "Much-abused laws for "preventive detention" in the interests of maintaining public order, and other forms of illegal detention are routinely practiced in Pakistan, by State authorities, tribal and feudal chieftains and private agencies.
"The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture noted in 1996 that hideous torture practices are in widespread use all over Pakistan for the purpose of extracting confessions and humiliating those who are in disfavour with the authorities. Thousands of deaths in custody have been reported. State authorities resort to policies of terrorism, including thousands of extra-judicial killings to restore control at times of social crisis."
2005
US FBI linked to torture and abuse by Pakistani agencies, N.Y. Times, International Herald Tribune, May 5, 2005. Source link
The Afzal brothers’ ordeal. Two victims of Pakistan intelligence agencies. The News, May 30, 2005.
Pakistan: US Citizens Tortured, Held Illegally, Human Rights Watch, Tuesday 24 May 2005.
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April 2006
larming situation of forced disappearance of political and human rights activists, Asian Human Rights Commission report, April 2006.
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June 2006
Pak Journalist who exposed US strikes abduected and murdered. News Watch, June 17, 2006. Source
Intelligence Agents Trapped my Husband: Hayatullah Widow, Daily Times, June 21, 2006. Source
Pakistan Now Black Hole for Media, The Christian Science Monitor, June 23, 2006.Published here
Pakistan: Three Journalists detained; several other threatened, International Federation of Journalists, June 30, 2006. Source.