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| Swat militants release two Chitral residents after 9 days |
| 2007-11-09 |
| Two Chitral residents, Ziauddin and Rauf, were taken into custody by Maulana Fazlullah’s militia at an impromptu barricade set up in front of Charbagh police station on October 28. Released after a nine-day detention on November 5, Ziauddin on Thursday spoke of their ordeal to Daily Times. “The nine days I spent in their [Maulana Fazlullah’s men’s] captivity were the darkest in my life,” said Zaiuddin. He said his friend and he were travelling from Gilgit to Chitral via Chakdara when they were “arrested” by Fazlullah’s men. Around five armed militants stopped them at the barricade and took them into “custody” on the suspicion that they were intelligence agency personnel, he said. “We were blindfolded, our arms were tied, and we were taken to a house. The following night, we were shifted to the Kanju Government High School, which the militants were using as a jail.” He said 25 odd people were imprisoned at the school. They were watched over by 15 of Fazlullah’s special guards in two shifts, day and night. “We were constantly guarded and even accompanied to the washroom. I was taken to a room with my hands tied behind my back. They took off my shirt and started thrashing me between my shoulder blades. Then, they asked me whether I was an intelligence official.” He said they were taken to this “torture room” several times. |
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