Selective justice

Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, the Afghan ambassador to Pakistan before the US invasion of Afghanistan, was initially detained in Pakistan in 2001 and then beaten, tortured, handcuffed and dragged naked in a US Helicopter before being airlifted to Guantanamo Bay. The serving Ambassador had full diplomatic immunity as accorded to his status under the Vienna Convention. Dr. Irfan Zafar, Islamabad

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