Ex-LG candidate commits suicide after alleged police torture

Ex-LG candidate commits suicide after alleged police torture


Till earlier this year, Noman’s ambitions included serving the public as a member of the local government. Fast forward a few weeks and the man took his own life after allegedly being tortured and humiliated by the police, family sources claimed on Tuesday.
They said police had picked up Faizan, the son of Chan Muhammad and Noman’s brother, from Sector I of Khalabat Township in connection with a robbery case.
Locals shared a grab from CCTV footage which helped in identifying the robbers. However, Faizan managed to escape from their custody. Little did he know his actions would end up in fatal consequences not for him, but for Noman.
Collective responsibility?
In a classic case of guilt by association, police subsequently arrested 28-year-old Noman, a former candidate for a youth councillor seat. The law enforcers allegedly humiliated and tortured him during unrecorded detention for a couple of hours.
Noman, who worked on a poultry farm, was released on the request of a local influential figure. However, when he returned from work on Monday afternoon, the police reportedly raided his residence once again and ransacked the premises without a search warrant. The man was taken into custody for the second time and was subjected to torture yet again, sources added.
He was set free in the evening on the condition that he would turn Faizan in. While heading home after yet another humiliating ordeal, Noman met his friends and shared the inhumane treatment meted out by the police. He told his friends that he has lost purpose in life and is left with no choice
but to kill himself.
Ending it all
An hour later, he brought home a poisonous substance and consumed it in his room. The family shifted him to the Women and Children Hospital from where the doctors referred him to Ayub Medical Complex, Abbottabad. However, he died on the way.
Family members and locals took the body back to Haripur where they protested by placing the body in the middle of GT Road and demanded the registration of an FIR against Khalabat Township SHO. After half an hour, protesters dispersed when district naib nazim Agha Shabir assured them of an enquiry. When approached for comments, Khalabat Township police denied torturing Noman and added the raid was carried out to hunt down Faizan. They confirmed the latter was wanted in a robbery case. Police claimed Noman misbehaved at the residence and was briefly taken into custody before being released.
Separate incident
Earlier this week, three teenage boys from Aslam Colony in Haripur accused City police of unrecorded detention and torture for five days. The complainant, Ali Raza, his brother Qaisar and a neighbour Waseem, lodged the complaint with a judicial magistrate, seeking medical examination and registration of a case. However, the magistrate rejected the complaint. The three men have now moved the court of a district and sessions judge in Haripur.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 23rd, 2015.

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Imran Khan calls for Taliban to be allowed office for peace talks

The Taliban should be allowed to open an office in Pakistan to boost the prospects of peace talks, the country's opposition leader and former cricket captain Imran Khan has said.



















Imran Khan
Imran Khan speaks to the media on Wednesday after visiting victims of the suicide bombing of Peshawar's All Saints Church  Photo: BILAWAL ARBAB/EPA
His call was made after he visited victims of the worst terrorist attack on the country's Christian minority in Pakistan's history, the suicide bombing of Peshawar's All Saints Church in which 85 worshippers and killed and more than 100 injured as they emerged from Sunday mass.
The proposal was condemned by his Awami National Party opponents which accused him of being "soft" on Taliban terrorism.
Mr Khan, whose centrist Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Party (PTI) party now governs in Khyber Pukhtunkhwa province after a strong showing in the country's general election early this year, dismissed the criticism and said the move would boost the prospects for peace.
Prime minister Nawaz Sharif won all-party support for a new dialogue with Pakistan's Taliban umbrella group, the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP),
“If the government is serious about pursuing the dialogue process with the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan it should allow them to have their own office like the one opened by the Afghan Taliban in Qatar,” he said.
“If the Americans can allow the opening of office in Qatar to facilitate talks with the Afghan Taliban, why can’t we do in our own country,” he added.
Senator Zahid Khan of the Awami National Party said his comments were "childish".
“This is very unfortunate to see that a leader like him is making childish remarks. The Pakistani Taliban was never in power in this country, and they are not fighting against occupation as the Afghan Taliban say, so it is immature of him to compare the two,” He said.
“People of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are dying every day because of these terrorists and Imran Khan continues to be soft on them. People have started to hate him already,” he added.
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has suffered a number of Taliban in recent months.
Mr Khan was strongly criticised shortly after he described the church bombing as a conspiracy to derail the peace process with the Pakistani Taliban, which angered Christian Pakistanis. in a series if public protests, the former playboy cricketer was denounced by protestors who chanted: “Imran is a dog."

PTI claim of 20000 bogus votes in NA258 is an absolute rubbish |

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Nadra confirms rigging reports in NA-258

KARACHI: The election to a National Assembly seat (NA-258) in Karachi was massively rigged in the May 11 general elections, it emerged in a report filed in an election tribunal by the National Database and Registration Authority on Saturday.
The seat was won by the candidate of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, Abdul Hakim Baloch.
The election results of the constituency was later challenged in the tribunal headed by a former judge of the Sindh High Court, Zafar Ahmed Sherwani, who directed Nadra to carry out the examination and comparison of the election material, including statement of count, used counterfoils and photo electoral rolls.
Investigations by Nadra revealed that the thumb impressions on 23,432 ballots could not be compared or matched through the Nadra system because the fingerprints were of very poor quality seemingly due to a lack of essential properties of the ink and inkpad used in the process of balloting.
The report said that only 2,475 of the total 32,865 ballots sent to Nadra for verification of certain polling stations were successfully authenticated.
It said that during the process of verification it was revealed that as many as 4,680 counterfoils contained invalid computerised national identity card numbers, which were never issued by Nadra.
Besides, the report said 435 votes were found not registered in the constituency and the fact was ascertained on the basis of the CNIC numbers mentioned on the used counterfoils. This bogus voting was observed in three different polling stations.
According to the report, there were 1,404 duplicate votes polled by 658 voters mainly in two polling stations.
It said as many as eight votes were cast on one CNIC (42401-974889-5) of Muhammad Swaleheen, a resident of Khudi ki Basti, Surjani Town. The report also said that as many as 11 votes were polled on one CNIC (42501-6587372-7) issued in the name of Muhammad Faizan-ud-Din, a resident of Majeed Colony, Landhi.
The report said that as many as 386 used counterfoils were found without having fingerprints on them.
It said that only 2,475 votes were authenticated by Nadra’s Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS). This means that fingerprint affixed on counterfoil at the time of issuance of ballot paper correctly matched with fingerprint data of registered voter held with Nadra in citizens’ database.
The report said that as many as 53 votes failed authentication, meaning thereby that someone else voted against the CNIC number mentioned on the used counterfoils.
It said that a large number of fingerprints on used counterfoils could not be processed through AFIS due to poor quality of fingerprints.
The report said that Nadra had proposed to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) certain features of the ink to be used for capturing fingerprints at the time of issuance of ballot paper, but it seemed that the ink used in the polling process did not possess the proposed qualities.
“This has resulted in 23,432 bad quality fingerprints which were unable to be processed through AFIS. However, CNIC numbers mentioned on such counterfoils having bad thumb impressions were valid and belonged to the same constituency.
The election petition against the winning candidate of the PML-N was filed by the rival candidate of the Pakistan Peoples Party, Abdul Razzaq Raja, who also cited 25 other contestants of the election to the NA-258 as respondents.
He said that the whole electoral process in his constituency was marred by serious irregularities, illegalities and law and order disturbances.
The petitioner alleged that whole constituency witnessed unprecedented display of hubris and arrogance from the supporters of the PML-N as well as some other contesting candidates.
He said that total number of polling stations in the constituency was 287 and most of the polling stations were controlled by the supporters of Mr Baloch, who in collusion with the polling staff demonstrated the extent of rigging by filling the ballot boxes at their whim and made travesty of the whole electoral process.
The petitioner stated that the ballot boxes were stuffed with fake ballot papers by the supporters of the PML-N candidate and other candidates in several polling stations.
He said that there were serious anomalies in the consolidated result in as much as the statement of count differs from the consolidated result and in case of number of polling stations actual vote cast in favour of the petitioner were not taken into consideration.
The petitioner pointed out that he also found some original ballot papers lying abandoned near one of the polling stations and this fact clearly established that ballot papers were in the hands of miscreants and supporters of the contesting candidates and the polling staff had no control over it.
He asked the tribunal to declare that the election held on NA-258 (Gadap) was illegal, unlawful and unconstitutional and tainted with illegal and corrupt practices, as such the polls were null and void in the entire constituency.
He further requested the court to direct the ECP to conduct re-polling in the entire constituency under the strict provision of law-enforcement agencies.
The Nadra report also explained its entire process of verification of the votes. It said that the statement of counts, counterfoils and photo electoral rolls were scanned and loaded into a database to preserve election material in electronic form. This operation was performed using auto-feed high-speed scanners at the desired image quality of 400 DPI, or Dots per inch. After scanning, digitisation operation commenced wherein NIC number was captured and fingerprints/thumb impressions were electronically extracted from the scanned images.
Then, it said, fingerprints/thumb impressions of the voters were sent to the AFIS for authentication /verification against their respective record held against their CNICs. The AFIS is a software solution which has capability to accurately compare/match fingerprints/thumb impressions and verify their authenticity.

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