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The JUD, which claims to help the poor, says that it has created a “pure Islamic environment” at Muridke that is superior to western “depravity”. Khan’s activities explode that myth. He planned to sell his young captives to the highest bidder, whether into domestic servitude or the sex trade. The boys knew only that they were for sale. This is the story of the misery that Akash and his friends, aged six to 12, endured in captivity; of their rescue by Christian missionaries who bought their freedom and tried to expose the kidnappers; and of the children’s moving reunions with their loved ones who had believed they were dead.
The boys were ordered not to talk, pray or play. Five of them were playing a Pakistani equivalent of scissors, paper, stone one day when the guards burst in and beat them savagely on their backs and heads. On another occasion Akash was repeatedly struck by guards yelling “What is in your house?” “I kept telling them, ‘We have nothing’,” he said anxiously. “I was so afraid they would go back and rob my father and mother.” It is painful to imagine blows raining down on the ribs of so slight a figure. The guards mostly sat outside playing cards, shaded from the 116F heat by a tree. But the boys were allowed out of their room only to use a filthy hole-in-the-ground lavatory.
Unbeknown to Akash, a Pakistani Christian missionary and an American evangelist who runs a tiny charity called Help Pakistani Children had seen the boys’ photographs and taken up their cause...... An elaborate sting was conceived. The Pakistani missionary would pose as a Lahore businessman named Amir seeking boys to use as beggars who would give their cash to him. Amir played his part well. Within a week he had bought three of the boys for $5,000 (£2,650) and put down a $2,500 deposit on the 17 others, including Akash. The first three were handed over on a Quetta street in April and returned to their families. But Khan wanted $28,500 for the lot. He gave Amir two months to come up with the money, saying he did not mind if the deadline was missed: he could earn more if he sold them for their organs, he claimed.
Asif had retained a sense of outrage from the moment of his abduction. “They put me in a bag!” he kept saying indignantly. He picked out a bright orange T-shirt because he liked its bear logo, the symbol of a football team in Chicago. Like Akash, Asif said he had lost consciousness when a man with a beard and turban put a rag over his mouth. He became indignant again when I asked whether he had tried to escape. “The men told us if we ran out of the door they would cut our throats,” he said. Asif seemed to have few memories of home. “My friend was Bilal,” he said. He grew quiet when he realised he had forgotten what his mother looked like.
Even the police said the reach of such groups was too long for them to be dealt with in a straightforward way. Why should it be so difficult to prosecute slave traders who cloak themselves in the garb of pious Muslims? For one thing, the JUD offers free medical care and education and won hearts and minds by providing blankets, tents and food after last year’s Kashmir earthquake. Few Pakistanis care to know how closely it is associated with Lashkar-i-Toiba, a group proscribed by Pakistan and Britain as a terrorist organisation that participated in an Al-Qaeda attempt to assassinate Pervez Musharraf, the Pakistani president, in 2003. There can be no denying Khan’s connections with the JUD. After he collected his $28,500, he was seen driving directly into its headquarters. Brother David and Amir are ready to present their dossier of evidence, including the secret tape of Khan taking the money for the boys. In almost any other country, an investigation into Khan and his work for the JUD would be automatic. It is not so simple in Pakistan. Musharraf has announced numerous crackdowns on the extremist religious militants but the extremists continue to gather strength.
Quote from: Don Rizzle on May 10, 2006, 03:16:12 AMiraq would just get annexed by iranThat would be a great solution. If Iran and the majority of Iraqi's are pleased with it, then why shouldn't they do it?
iraq would just get annexed by iran
lol yeah they bitch about it how dare they bitch about the moral leaders of the world kidnapping thousands of innocent muslims and torturing them so brutally that many have died. One of these days you will say something with an ounce of sense i could be waiting a long time for that day to happen though. To break it down for you because you seem to be extremely slow people arent denying that there are sick savage scum like those just mentioned they are "bitching" because dumb foolhardy americans seem to think their american government is better than that, you see now your playing a game of double think you say your better than them but when the torturous murderous activies of the americans is discovered then you revert back to well they do it so whats the big deal. Stick to trying to be humerous at least it masks how incredibly stupid you are, or maybe just ignorant im not sure which.
banana boy how can u compare the gitmo situation to thismost powerful govt in the world creating a conflict then using it as an excuse to unlawfully detain a bunch of fuckersvssome shit for brain dirty pakis who shouldve been aborted fuckin lil kids?lol @ islamist slave traderscriminals by any definition
That article was very disturbing. Muslims will do and try anything.
my throat hurts, its hard to swallow, and my body feels like i got a serious ass beating.
i heard that at their mosques after midnight theres usally a baby buffet where they devour non muslim infants