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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.
[The Nation (Pakistan) 8/27/04; The News International Pakistan8/27/04; GEO Pakistan 8/26/04]
from
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