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Omar Sheikh claims govt knew of sacrilege for long

HYDERABAD: Omar Sheikh, a convict in the Daniel Pearl kidnapping and murder case, reportedly claimed on Tuesday the Government of Pakistan had been aware of the sacrilege of Holy Quran by US interrogators in Guantanamo Bay prison for the past eight months.

He said this in a two-page written press statement in Urdu language distributed among journalists at Hyderabad Press Club by Aslam Sheikh, brother of Adil Sheikh, another convict in Pearl murder case. Aslam Sheikh claimed Adil Sheikh delivered the statement to him on Tuesday when he met him in Central Jail, Hyderabad.

The statement said: “There are many people in Hyderabad and Adiala jails who had been detained and were tortured in Guantanamo Bay prison and all of them say the sacrilege of Holy Quran in the US prison is a routine matter, not a few stray incidents. “When a prisoner does not speak despite physical torture during interrogation in Guantanamo Prison, then US soldiers stand on the Holy Quran with their shoes on, or tear pages of the holy book and clean toilets with them, or dump the entire book in a can given to prisoners for passing stool and urine. “The Government of Pakistan has been well aware of this fact since long as Pakistani officials have also visited the prison in Cuba and got reports of desecration of the Holy Quran from Pakistanis imprisoned there.” staff report

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