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August 30, 2004 PAKISTANIS DEPORTED ON CHARTER FLIGHT A group of 59 Pakistani deportees arrived in Islamabad, Pakistan, at 6pm on Aug. 26 on a flight chartered by the US government. The flight left on Aug. 25 from the US state of Louisiana. It was the eighth US charter flight taking deportees to Pakistan since June 2002 [see INB 4/15/04]. Originally, 64 deportees were to be on board, but five were pulled from the flight because their paperwork was not in order. Several US security officials and an official from the Pakistani embassy in Washington accompanied the flight.After arriving in Islamabad, the deportees were held on the plane for over two hours for "security reasons" while the president of Bosnia boarded a plane out of Pakistan after an official visit. Pakistani immigration officials interrogated the deportees, noting their personal information and asking them how they came to be arrested and deported. In the end, Pakistani authorities held one individual for further investigation and allowed the rest to go on their way.
The Pakistani daily The Nation said most of the deportees refused
to talk to reporters, while The News International Pakistan
reported that most complained of being tortured in US detention.
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Posted by aderkon on August 30, 2004 11:02 AM
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