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Commonly known Pakistanis arrested abroad.
Sabir Shah
Thursday, November 03, 2011
LAHORE: While 7,000 Pakistanis currently languishing in foreign jails were famous prior to their arrests, a few gained notoriety after they were apprehended on accusations ranging from immigration-related offences and terrorism to murder, attempted murder and possession of weapons to kill etc.
It is common knowledge that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs gave the details about the 7,000 Pakistanis imprisoned abroad to the Supreme Court of Pakistan in March 2010.
Commonly known people like classical singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Ajmal Kasab, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, Mir Aimal Kasi, hijacker Salamullah Tipu and Amir Cheema etc are among the thousands of Pakistanis held, prosecuted and jailed abroad during the last few decades.
Here follow some brief details about these jailed Pakistanis, most of whom have surely brought a bad name to the country due to their misdeeds: Pakistani Singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan was arrested at Delhi Airport on February 13, 2011 for possessing 124,000 US dollars, higher than the permissible limits. The Delhi Airport police officials interrogated him. On February 14, 2011 Rahat was released after having remained in detention for over 25 hours.
Highly placed Pakistani authorities like Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir, Interior Minister Rehman Malik and the countrys High Commissioner to New Delhi Shahid Malik were on record to have actually urged India for the singers release.
(References: Geo TV and NDTV India)
Ajmal Amir Kasab was arrested in India for his alleged involvement in the November 26, 2008 Mumbai attacks that had claimed 166 lives. He was the only attacker captured alive by the Mumbai police after the incident. The government of Pakistan, after having initially denied that Kasab was a Pakistani, had officially acknowledged in January 2009 that the alleged terrorist was a resident of Faridkot village in West Punjab.
It is imperative to recall that the then National Security Advisor of Pakistan, Mahmood Ali Durrani, had publicly admitted that Kasab was a Pakistani citizen, but this statement on an Indian television channel had cost him his job as Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani had instantly fired Durrani for lack of coordination on matters of national security.
On May 3, 2010 an Indian court had convicted Kasab of murder, waging war on India and possessing explosives etc. And just three days later, the same trial court had sentenced him to death on four counts and to a life sentence on five other counts.
Kasab has been sentenced to death for attacking Mumbai and killing 166 people on November 26, 2008 along with nine other Pakistani terrorists. Overall, he was found guilty of 80 offences. The Bombay High Court upheld Kasabs death sentence on February 21, 2011.
On July 30, 2011 Kasab had moved the Supreme Court of India, challenging his conviction and sentence in this case. The Apex Indian court had stayed the Bombay High Court orders and had started hearing the plea.
Dr. Aafia Siddiqui (born 1972) is an American-educated Pakistani neuroscientist, who was convicted because of her alleged intention to murder her US interrogators in Afghanistan. She is known to have been arrested in July 2008 in Afghanistan. After receiving medical treatment for her wounds at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, a severely injured Aafia was then flown to the US to be charged in New York with attempted murder and armed assault on US officers. She was charged on July 31, 2008, convicted in February 2010 and in September 2010 a United States court sentenced her to 86 years in prison.
(References: The Boston Globe, The Associated Press, The New York Times, The Washington Post etc)
Mir Aimal Kasi, a Pakistani allegedly involved in the January 25, 1993 shooting at CIA Headquarters in Virginia (US), was arrested on June 15, 1997 from a Dera Ghazi Khan Hotel by a team of FBI agents and Pakistani security agencies. In the afore-mentioned CIA shooting incident, Kasi had reportedly killed two CIA employees and wounded another three before escaping to Pakistan. He was flown to the US on June 17, 1997. A Virginia state court tried Kasi in November 1997. On February 4, 1998 he was sentenced to death, besides being sentenced to life imprisonment in the same case and fined $0.6 million.
Kasi was finally executed by a lethal injection on November 14, 2002 and his body was repatriated to Pakistan.
(References: FBI archives and The Washington Post etc)
Salamullah Tipu, a Pakistani leftist student leader at the University of Karachi and a prominent member of late Murtaza Bhuttos guerilla outfit Al-Zulfikar, had hijacked a Peshawar-bound PIA plane from Karachi in March 1981. The plane was first diverted to Kabul and was then flown to Damascus. However, 29 hostages were released in Kabul.
The purpose behind the hijacking was to avenge Zulfikar Ali Bhuttos execution by General Ziaul Haq in 1979 and get 92 political prisoners released. General Zia had initially refused to bow to the demands of Tipu and his two accomplices, but had later agreed to release 52 prisoners on the demand of the hijackers.
Tipu then shot dead a diplomat, Tariq Rahim, whom he had mistakenly believed to be the son of General Rahimuddin Khan, the then-martial law administrator and a key aide of General Zia.
Tariqs body was lefty on the tarmac.
Tipu was arrested in Kabul in 1984 and was eventually executed the same year for murdering an Afghan national. His body was never returned to Pakistan.
(References: BBC report of October 3, 2001 and various Pakistani media outlets between 1981 and 1984)
Amir Abdur Rehman Cheema (19782006) was 28-year-old Pakistani textile engineering student in Germany. He was infuriated over the re-publication of blasphemous cartoons (originally printed in a Danish media outlet) in a German newspaper.
The young man, hailing from the city of Wazirabad, had reportedly entered the German newspapers offices on March 20, 2006 to murder the papers Editor, Roger Koppel. He was arrested on the sport by the security guards.
On May 3, 2006 while he was still awaiting trial in German police custody, he had reportedly committed suicide in his jail cell.
A motion was tabled in the National Assembly of Pakistan to discuss the circumstances leading to Amir Cheemas death. The post-mortem examination, carried out in the presence of two Pakistani officials in Germany, had found no signs of torture though. He was buried in his native town on May 13, 2006.
(References: Al-Jazeera TV, Daily Scotsman, BBC and top German weekly magazine Der Spiegel etc)
Sabir Shah
Thursday, November 03, 2011
LAHORE: While 7,000 Pakistanis currently languishing in foreign jails were famous prior to their arrests, a few gained notoriety after they were apprehended on accusations ranging from immigration-related offences and terrorism to murder, attempted murder and possession of weapons to kill etc.
It is common knowledge that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs gave the details about the 7,000 Pakistanis imprisoned abroad to the Supreme Court of Pakistan in March 2010.
Commonly known people like classical singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Ajmal Kasab, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, Mir Aimal Kasi, hijacker Salamullah Tipu and Amir Cheema etc are among the thousands of Pakistanis held, prosecuted and jailed abroad during the last few decades.
Here follow some brief details about these jailed Pakistanis, most of whom have surely brought a bad name to the country due to their misdeeds: Pakistani Singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan was arrested at Delhi Airport on February 13, 2011 for possessing 124,000 US dollars, higher than the permissible limits. The Delhi Airport police officials interrogated him. On February 14, 2011 Rahat was released after having remained in detention for over 25 hours.
Highly placed Pakistani authorities like Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir, Interior Minister Rehman Malik and the countrys High Commissioner to New Delhi Shahid Malik were on record to have actually urged India for the singers release.
(References: Geo TV and NDTV India)
Ajmal Amir Kasab was arrested in India for his alleged involvement in the November 26, 2008 Mumbai attacks that had claimed 166 lives. He was the only attacker captured alive by the Mumbai police after the incident. The government of Pakistan, after having initially denied that Kasab was a Pakistani, had officially acknowledged in January 2009 that the alleged terrorist was a resident of Faridkot village in West Punjab.
It is imperative to recall that the then National Security Advisor of Pakistan, Mahmood Ali Durrani, had publicly admitted that Kasab was a Pakistani citizen, but this statement on an Indian television channel had cost him his job as Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani had instantly fired Durrani for lack of coordination on matters of national security.
On May 3, 2010 an Indian court had convicted Kasab of murder, waging war on India and possessing explosives etc. And just three days later, the same trial court had sentenced him to death on four counts and to a life sentence on five other counts.
Kasab has been sentenced to death for attacking Mumbai and killing 166 people on November 26, 2008 along with nine other Pakistani terrorists. Overall, he was found guilty of 80 offences. The Bombay High Court upheld Kasabs death sentence on February 21, 2011.
On July 30, 2011 Kasab had moved the Supreme Court of India, challenging his conviction and sentence in this case. The Apex Indian court had stayed the Bombay High Court orders and had started hearing the plea.
Dr. Aafia Siddiqui (born 1972) is an American-educated Pakistani neuroscientist, who was convicted because of her alleged intention to murder her US interrogators in Afghanistan. She is known to have been arrested in July 2008 in Afghanistan. After receiving medical treatment for her wounds at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, a severely injured Aafia was then flown to the US to be charged in New York with attempted murder and armed assault on US officers. She was charged on July 31, 2008, convicted in February 2010 and in September 2010 a United States court sentenced her to 86 years in prison.
(References: The Boston Globe, The Associated Press, The New York Times, The Washington Post etc)
Mir Aimal Kasi, a Pakistani allegedly involved in the January 25, 1993 shooting at CIA Headquarters in Virginia (US), was arrested on June 15, 1997 from a Dera Ghazi Khan Hotel by a team of FBI agents and Pakistani security agencies. In the afore-mentioned CIA shooting incident, Kasi had reportedly killed two CIA employees and wounded another three before escaping to Pakistan. He was flown to the US on June 17, 1997. A Virginia state court tried Kasi in November 1997. On February 4, 1998 he was sentenced to death, besides being sentenced to life imprisonment in the same case and fined $0.6 million.
Kasi was finally executed by a lethal injection on November 14, 2002 and his body was repatriated to Pakistan.
(References: FBI archives and The Washington Post etc)
Salamullah Tipu, a Pakistani leftist student leader at the University of Karachi and a prominent member of late Murtaza Bhuttos guerilla outfit Al-Zulfikar, had hijacked a Peshawar-bound PIA plane from Karachi in March 1981. The plane was first diverted to Kabul and was then flown to Damascus. However, 29 hostages were released in Kabul.
The purpose behind the hijacking was to avenge Zulfikar Ali Bhuttos execution by General Ziaul Haq in 1979 and get 92 political prisoners released. General Zia had initially refused to bow to the demands of Tipu and his two accomplices, but had later agreed to release 52 prisoners on the demand of the hijackers.
Tipu then shot dead a diplomat, Tariq Rahim, whom he had mistakenly believed to be the son of General Rahimuddin Khan, the then-martial law administrator and a key aide of General Zia.
Tariqs body was lefty on the tarmac.
Tipu was arrested in Kabul in 1984 and was eventually executed the same year for murdering an Afghan national. His body was never returned to Pakistan.
(References: BBC report of October 3, 2001 and various Pakistani media outlets between 1981 and 1984)
Amir Abdur Rehman Cheema (19782006) was 28-year-old Pakistani textile engineering student in Germany. He was infuriated over the re-publication of blasphemous cartoons (originally printed in a Danish media outlet) in a German newspaper.
The young man, hailing from the city of Wazirabad, had reportedly entered the German newspapers offices on March 20, 2006 to murder the papers Editor, Roger Koppel. He was arrested on the sport by the security guards.
On May 3, 2006 while he was still awaiting trial in German police custody, he had reportedly committed suicide in his jail cell.
A motion was tabled in the National Assembly of Pakistan to discuss the circumstances leading to Amir Cheemas death. The post-mortem examination, carried out in the presence of two Pakistani officials in Germany, had found no signs of torture though. He was buried in his native town on May 13, 2006.
(References: Al-Jazeera TV, Daily Scotsman, BBC and top German weekly magazine Der Spiegel etc)
