The Interior Ministry on Monday rejected claims by the lawyer for British terror suspect Rashid Rauf that his client, who had disappeared from police custody, was being secretly held by authorities. | "No, no! Certainly not!" |
Arrested in Pakistan in 2006, Rauf is suspected in an alleged plot to blow up trans-Atlantic airliners with liquid explosives. Reports of the plot led airlines to limit the amount of liquids passengers may carry on board. “This is not a case of escape. Rashid Rauf in fact disappeared and the government later came out with different stories every time,” Hashmat said. “Look, many people, thousands of people, disappear in Pakistan,” the lawyer told The Guardian. “The government knows what it means, and the people know what it means.”