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ATC rejects Rashid Rauf's bail application
2007-10-11
The Anti Terrorist Court (No II) on Wednesday rejected the bail application of Rashid Rauf,
He further contended that the charges of impersonation, deception and carrying 29 bottles of hydrogen peroxide were bailable offences as the police only assumed he was carrying the liquid to make bombs.
a British national of Pakistani origin who was arrested in August 2006 in connection with a plot to bomb trans-Atlantic flights.

Rashid Rauf’s counsel pleaded that his client had not been arrested in the Islamabad Airport police station precincts as registered in the FIR, and was in fact in Bahawalpur at the time. He further contended that the charges of impersonation, deception and carrying 29 bottles of hydrogen peroxide were bailable offences as the police only assumed he was carrying the liquid to make bombs. Public Prosecutor Raja Abdul Qayyum maintained that the accused had confessed to conspiring to make bombs during interrogation, and he was admittedly involved in the attempt to bomb US-bound airplanes from London.
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Afghanistan/South Asia
UK expels Indian diplomat's killer
2005-05-19
Britain has expelled a Pakistani man who assassinated India's Deputy High Commissioner Ravindra Mhatre in 1984. Raja Abdul Qayyum, convicted by a British court for assassinating Mhatre in Birmingham, returned to Pakistan on Wednesday, the Daily Times reported.
So does he go to a Pak jail or someone's guesthouse?
To me, it woulda made more sense to ship him off to India. They'd probably be able to figure what to do with him.
Raja Qayyum was among six men convicted of abducting Mhatre to pressure the Indian government into releasing Kashmiri separatist leader Maqbool Butt, who led the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF). British law enforcement officials arrested Raja Qayyum and a court awarded him 18 years' rigorous imprisonment. Mhatre was killed after the Indian government refused to give in to the demands of the terrorists. Butt was later hanged in Delhi's Tihar Jail for his role in terrorist activity.
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