I guess confessions of Wali babar khan killers were also taken under duress ? And all the potential witnesses of WBR case weren't murderd but did suicide, right ?. Oh those two murderers arrested from lahore by IB/ISI were pathans. MQM was falsely accused of killing Babur khan tch tch
There is a reason why the west developed, and continues to invest heavily, in forensic analysis. Confessions, under any circumstances within remand custody, are unacceptable in any court of law around the world including Pakistan.........do you know why? Because under torture, physical/mental/psychological etc., everyone wants relief and would say anything to his/her immediate advantage. You and I would do the exact same thing.
I can guarantee 1 thing with certainty, any single member of this forum would confess to anything and everything, that the torturer wishes from him/her, within 10 minutes of remand custody proceedings. But, would that be justice served? This debate is not about whether MQM affiliated killers targeted Wali Babar or not but rather on the possibility that all these confessions are forced under torture or not.
Do you want justice or just plain revenge, on anyone?
and I guess you haven't heard our agency uses sodium pentothal and it's derivatives mainly during interrogations, get things done quickly than torture which is just a sideshow to keep inmate under total mental duress.
I guess your knowledge on our agencies is different from mine. And the former is not just limited to agencies either but also the effectiveness of the so called 'truth serum' which is not used in the first world countries for a particular reason.
Dear so many MQM threads and don't even remember where I replied what and to whom. And for your assumption about me that have I ever been in brawl or beaten up, well I twice faced pistol at point blank range and by grace of ALLAH my legs never shivered once. Now its different story I am afraid to even ride a dragon boat.
Being held up at gun point is very different. Being at the mercy of ruthless torturers, bound, gagged and naked, on and off ice periodically with severe beating, starvation, extreme and abnormal stretching of the limbs, introduction of extraordinary equipment into crevices, electric shocks to the private parts, sleep deprivation etc., as normal, everyday torture matters of the LEA......add to that the new favourite, water boarding.
Under torture, everyone breaks and starts speaking things that the torcherer wants to hear.
Don't know if you are familiar with the interrogation techniques but what little I learnt is there are many ways of breaking someone and torture is just an assisting factor, but not the main reason. And I am not talking about police here I am referring to agencies.
The primary agent of our agencies, to break someone, is torture. Is there a wonder we have such an abundance of jokes on the torture of LEAs? Torture is unproductive and pointless and its result is usually false information.