Click to play videoLondon: The Pakistani connection in the July 7, 2005 bombings in London has led to hundreds of investigations in both countries.
Several British Pakistanis say they have been tortured on visits to Pakistan—with the approval of British authorities in what have come to be called extraordinary renditions. In the latest complaints, three British Pakistanis, a taxi driver, a student and an author, have complained they were tortured in Pakistan. But this time, their MPs have taken up their cases.
"If extraordinary rendition has been used as a policy to maltreat people in Pakistan, including British nationals, I strongly deprecate that. I want to get to the bottom of the allegations,” says British MP Andrew Tyrie.
It's precisely because I think the powers of extraordinary rendition makes us less secure, not more, that I'm vigorously opposing it," says Tyrie.
Several reports of detentions in Pakistan have left British Pakistanis shaken, but many now see some hope of an end to arrangements that lead to arrest and torture.
Ghiyasudin Siddiqui, leader of the Muslim Parliament in Britain, welcomed MPs taking note of the allegations. "It is very significant that parliamentarians are taking note of some of the things that have been happening for a very long time. The relationship between the British and the Pakistani intelligence is a very long one, but what is happening is that civil society and the constituencies are becoming more and more vocal," says Siddiqui.
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