Hafiz Abdul Basit ( ) is a citizen of

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who is believed to have been detained on suspicion of involvement to assassinate Pakistan's leader

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Disappearance

A devout Muslim,Hafiz Basit relates his tales of woe and horrors under arrest
/ref> Basit disappeared from his home on January 4, 2004, and was believed to have been taken into covert

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in a secret Pakistani interrogation center for the next three and a half years. (see also:

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, the director-general of Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency, was threatened with jail, unless he produced Basit. Pakistani Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad told him: Pervez claims he was soon transferred to the custody of Pakistan's intelligence agency, the Interservices Intelligence Directorate. Pervez was allowed two brief, temporary, releases from the Court, to give him an opportunity to arrange for Hafiz Abdul Basit to be released from his extrajudicial detention—without success. Pakistan's

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intervened, and sought a further two-day adjournment, taking responsibility for the release of Hafiz Abdul Basit. Hafiz Abdul Basit had still not been produced, before the Court, on August 22, 2007, when the two-day adjournment expired. The Pakistani newspaper

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reported that Qayyum told the Supreme Court: The Supreme Court ordered the 25-year-old Basit be released to his maternal uncle

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Aftermath

He was finally released August 22, 2007.Basit accuses agencies
The Post Iftikhar's examination of the circumstances of Hafiz Abdul Basit's detention would trigger a wider inquiry into the practice of Pakistan's Intelligence and Justice organs holding captives in extrajudicial detention. Iftikhar wrote The Pakistani Supreme Court is going through a list of 287 disappeared men, one at a time. The Supreme Court also ordered the release of other men from the list of disappeared,

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, Munir Mengal and Salim Baloch.

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