The Pakistani Spectator

LAHORE, March 10: The body of a Pakistani man who had died in Indian police custody allegedly because of torture was handed over to Pakistan at Wagah on Monday.

The victim’s brother Abdullah, who had gone with other family members to receive the body, told reporters that Khalid Mahmood , 26, had gone to India in 2005 to watch a cricket match.

He said Indian intelligence agencies had arrested Khalid in Mohali when he was going to the Pakistan High Commission to report that he had lost his passport.

He said the family came to know about the arrest in 2006 from a letter sent by Khalid. His mother, sister and a bother went to India and filed an appeal in a court for his release but they had to leave for home within a week because of harassment by Indian intelligence agencies, he

said. This left the family unable to follow up the case.

He said the family came to know about Khalid’s death in police custody on March 4 but he had died on Feb 12, which could be verified by an autopsy.

He said Indian security agencies had ‘severely tortured’ Khalid because they considered him a spy.

I strongly condemn this act of terror which India has been turning out on Pakistanis since its very creation, its time it stopped.

What an irony that a spy is released in Pakistan assuming innocence, while an innocent man is murdered brutally in India on the doubt of being a spy.

It makes my heart cry and bleed to see; what man has made of man.