Pakistan to free Swede held in terror probe
Published: 7 Oct 09 17:30 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/22524/20091007/
The 19-year-old Safia Benaouda and her two-year-old son, who have been imprisoned in Pakistan since August, are to be released “shortly”, according to the Swedish foreign ministry.
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It remains unclear when the remaining two Swedes, who have been the subject of a terror investigation, may be released.
Pakistan’s Minister of the Interior Rehman Malik announced the impending release of Benaouda and her son when he met with Sweden’s ambassador in Islamabad, Ulrika Sundberg.
There have been several previous reports that Benaouda had been released or was about to be released, but Wednesday’s news is the first time the information has been confirmed by both Swedish and Pakistani officials.
Malik, who is in charge of Pakistan’s police force, said on Tuesday that he would receive a report about the detained Swedes on Wednesday, at which time he would made a decision about their fate as soon as possible.
The Swedes have been detained since August 28th when they were arrested in northern Pakistan, along with seven Turks, an Iranian, a Russian, and one Pakistani, according the police.
The police reported that the group was arrested in a prohibited area near a nuclear power facility.
Police suspect the group was on its way to rendezvous with representatives from the Taliban in southern Waziristan, long considered a Taliban stronghold.
One of the Swedes claimed the group was in fact on its way to a meeting with a Muslim revivalist movement in the city of Lahore.
It took until September 16th for Swedish authorities to receive formal confirmation that the Swedes had in fact been arrested.
According to foreign ministry spokesperson Anders Jörle, personnel from Sweden’s embassy in Pakistan were able to meet the four Swedish detainees on one occasion.
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patriotism? In Sweden? You must be mad. Soon it will be not allowed to present the national flag in Sweden as it offend some of the 'Swedes'. This is the most segregated country I have ever seen. You cross the city from one side to the other, and its like to go to another plant.
how exactly does a terrorism suspect become a freedom fighter? and what do you mean when you say "and its like to go to another plant"? did you mean planet? because plant doesn't make sense. come to think of it, neither does calling a terrorist a freedom fighter
Logic? With "Boby?" You must be mad.
-HSII
On the other hand, a Muslim trying to move to Velinge will have some serioues issues. The commun also refuses to take any refugees.
Not taking refugees into communities is more about value of properties than segregation. Secondly, most foriegners isolate them selves into one community, usually because rent is cheaper in that particular area or also because it is more comfortable for them to live among foreigners. I believe that if an immigrant/non native Swedes can afford to rent or buy a house in areas you mentioned like Velinge or Limhamn in Malmo, Skanor, etc were you said lived predominantly white/native Swedes, no one will deprive you of that. This is more a question of rich and poor, haves and have nots and in most cases the most foreigners are still under the middle class wage. At the end of the day, the property value falls in those community with large number of immigrants and this will also attract more and more under middle class and here we see a natural immigrant community forming and turning into what you so called segregation.
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