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.
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.
I understand your concern dear. However, the thing is what one should do when he knows that this thug has looted, murdered and raped and law won't punish him unless we get a confession out of him? and that is necessary because they kill all the witnesses (Wali Babar case nearly all witnesses were targeted and killed). If you could answer my question and come up with a solution fine share it, otherwise in my view the only alternate is what happened in Swat.