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Terrorist Lists,
monitoring, proscription,
designation and asset-freezing
Latest news and documentation
(Statewatch
terrorist lists site, updated 11 December 2007)
 December
2007 - Pakistan launches fresh offensive in Baluchistan, Britain
accused of Baluchi "prisoner swap": Baluchi activists report
that on the 6 December the Pakistani army launched a new offensive in the
Kahan and Dera Bugti Districts of Baluchistan. Hundreds of Baluchis are
said to have been detained, scores killed, and homes and schools destroyed
in air strikes from helicopter gunships and fighter planes. Civilians are
fleeing to the mountains. Meanwhile, the British government is accused of
arresting two Baluchi nationals living in London with the intention of
"swapping" them for Rashid Rauf, a 26-year-old Briton held in a
high security prison in Pakistan and accused of involvement in the alleged
plot to blow-up transatlantic airliners in 2006. Faiz Baluch and Hyrbyair
Marri were arrested in London following raids on their homes in the first
week of December. They have been charged with inciting another person to
commit an act of terrorism "wholly or partly outside the UK".
See UK
accused of 'prisoner swap' with Pakistan (Telegraph,
7.12.12) and Foreign
Office accused of swap deal over terror suspects (Guardian,
11.12.07). For background see Never
mind the Baluch? (June 2007).
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