PESHAWAR: associate Indian national, Hamid Nehal Ansari, UN agency had gone missing from Kohat over 3 years past, has been sentenced to 3 years imprisonment for undercover work by a court martial.

According to officers, mister Ansari was guilty 2 days past in Kohat and was shifted to city Central jail. He features a right to attractiveness underneath the Pakistan Army Act.

Sources aforesaid that the convict had confessed to illicitly coming into Pakistan from Afgh­a­nistan for undercover work. The supply additional that mister Ansari had seven Facebook accounts also as around thirty email addresses. He was reportedly found to be in possession of sensitive documents.

Last month, the defence ministry had advised the city supreme court that mister Ansari was within the custody of Pakistan Army and was being tried by court martial. In lightweight of the data, a two-member bench had on Jan thirteen disposed of a habeas corpus petition filed by Ms Fauzia Ansari, the convict’s mother, against his alleged outlaw detention.

“Agencies operating underneath the executive management of this ministry: Inter-Services Intelligence and MI, GHQ, were asked to produce requisite data. In response, Military Intelligence board, GHQ, intimated that Hamid Nehal Ansari is in military custody and is being tried by court martial,” browse the written response of a deputy director (legal) of the ministry to the court’s question.

The convict was taken into custody by police and Intelligence Bureau (IB) officers in Kohat in Nov 2012. Ever since, his whereabouts were unknown.

Mr Ansari, a 31-year-old Master in Business Administration degree holder, was an educator at the metropolis Management school. His mother claimed he was in grips with some Pakistani friends UN agency had prompt him to cross into Pakistan from Asian nation while not a visa. She claimed that he had become friends with a Pakistani lady through social media and had gone to Pakistan to fulfill her.

Ms Ansari had earlier sent associate application to the Supreme Court’s human rights cell that forwarded the case to the Commi­ssion of Inquiry on enforced Disappearances. The commission had on Gregorian calendar month ten, 2014, directed the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa home department to represent a joint investigation team to trace the whereabouts of mister Ansari. It had additionally ordered the Provincial lawman to register associate FIR regarding his disappearance.
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