19 Yr Old Son of Pakistani Embassy Staff abducted in Delhi

[arhaan]

Assalam-u-alaykum friends,

Pakistan has protested to India that the son of one of its embassy staff was abducted in Delhi and subjected to a bizarre photo session with corpses.
Pakistan's foreign ministry says Roshan Ali, 19, was forced to hold a knife over three bodies, held for eight hours and then thrown out of a vehicle.

Pakistan's information minister accused Indian intelligence agencies of carrying out the abduction.

India said it would be investigating the allegations.

The long-time rival nations have frequently complained of embassy harassments, although these have become more rare since a peace process began two years ago.

'Negative impact'

The Indian deputy high commissioner in Islamabad was summoned on Wednesday to receive a protest over the alleged kidnapping of the son of a Pakistani High Commission staff member.

The Pakistan foreign ministry said the diplomat had "expressed regrets over the unfortunate incident and assured that an investigation would be undertaken and the results shared with Pakistan".


The recent Delhi bombings put pressure on bilateral ties

Pakistan says Mr Ali was blindfolded and handcuffed before being taken to a room and smeared with blood from the corpses.

"He was forced to hold a large bloodstained knife in his hands and to stand next to the dead bodies. He was then photographed in various poses," a foreign ministry statement said.

The Pakistan embassy said it had found a note in Mr Ali's pocket addressed to his father saying the teenager should leave Delhi immediately as the kidnappers had photographs that could incriminate him.

Pakistan Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said Indian intelligence was to blame and urged it to refrain from such acts.

"These acts could have a negative impact on ties between the two countries," he warned.

India and Pakistan embarked on a peace process in January 2004 after a period of volatile relations.

There have been a number of moves towards rapprochement but the key issue of Kashmir - which both nations claim in its entirety and over which they have fought two wars - remains unresolved.

Last month, more than 60 people were killed and 210 injured in bomb attacks in Delhi.

Analysts say India believes Pakistan-based militants were involved but Islamabad has said it has no evidence that is the case.

[36thCommons]

These bizzare events indicate that the Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) are a mere political drama!!!

[Babban Miyan Ding Dong]

Assalam Alaikum,

I call it a POLITICAL MUMBO JUMBO, that india is using to delay any reslove on the real issues.

Thanks.

[arhaan]

On Wednesday Pakistan's information minister accused Indian intelligence agencies of kidnapping Roshan Ali.

But the Indian foreign ministry says there was no report to the police of the incident.

Mr Ali, 19, was blindfolded, handcuffed and subjected to a bizarre photo session with corpses, Pakistan said.

The long-time rival nations have frequently complained of embassy harassments, although these have become rarer since a peace process began two years ago.

The Pakistan foreign ministry said Mr Ali's kidnappers had taken him to a room and smeared him with blood taken from corpses in the room.

Pakistan officials also said they had found a note in Mr Ali's pocket addressed to his father saying the teenager should leave Delhi immediately as the kidnappers had photographs that could incriminate him.

But the Indian government says its police investigation shows that the note was written by a college friend of Mr Ali's, Rahul Sharma.

"Rahul Sharma's statement, and the absence of any corroborative report on the alleged abduction, clearly establishes that Roshan Ali's story is fabricated," the Indian foreign ministry statement said. There has been no official reaction from the Pakistani side to the Indian statement.

we are under an urgent compulsion to revamp our priority sequence....
the need to purgating the flagbearers of hindutva is ought to be on crash project basis,,,this incident merits the saying:
"a nod for the wise and a rod for the otherwise"
if we keep on bearing all this humiliation with a stiff upper lip, then i fear the same treatment being given to our rulers in the near future
we must have to deal with this brazen and blatant roguness of brahman hounds with an iron fist ...otherwise the two nation theory will become an ever illusive (as well as elusive) fable of the past....
as Quaid once said:
"we will never have a time of peace, unless we inundate the enemies of pakistan in the unfathomable depths of arabian sea"....
or in the words of iqbal
"na smjho ge tu mitt jao ge, aey hindustan walo,
tumhari dastan tak na ho gi dataanon mein"

[Muhammad T S Awan]

yeah well said,

we can take the example of ranjeet singh or -- singh, who has been held on the cases of bombings in Pakistan nd media poilcy of India to prove him innocent

perhaps it is also the responsibility of our media to air the picture of incident in a rightful manner