Torture is wrong. The interrogation of terrorist suspects is not torture. What the Pakistani authorities have done to an Indian national over 35 years is torture. The Pakistani government, having recently discovered their mistake, are moving to release the alleged spy.
Firstly, the Pakistani authorities had the alleged spy sentenced to death. Then they locked him up. He had half an hour each day to leave his cell overflowing with others, to stretch his legs. For thirty five years. He never had a visitor, probably because anyone he knew thought he'd been executed. He never saw the sky in thirty five years.
The Weasel has not been tortured. It is a disappointment to be 41 years old and to have never dated. It is a disappointment to be told by trusted friends that issues that might be discussed won't be because it is 'all too hard' and after all, entirely the Weasel's fault. All he has to do is .. be loved?
All this Indian 'spy' had to do, over thirty five years was to .. ?
Alleged spy lost on death row for 35 years
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A PAKISTANI minister said he had discovered an alleged Indian spy who has languished on death row in Pakistan for the last three and a half decades.
Indian national Kashmir Singh was arrested in 1973 on espionage charges and sentenced to death by a court martial, Pakistan's Minister for Human Rights Ansar Burney said in a statement.
Singh, a father of three, had become "mentally disabled" after spending the following 35 years in a cell under a secrecy act without ever seeing the sky or receiving a single visitor, Mr Burney said.
Mr Burney said he was tipped off about Singh by the Indian community in London and, after searching various Pakistani prisons, found him in the central jail in Lahore, where he was being kept under the Official Secrets Act.
"During all these years he had never received a single visitor or even seen the open sky, sun or moon," the statement said.
"He, like other condemned prisoners, was locked in an overcrowded death cell for 23.5 hours a day, only allowed out for 30 minutes to stretch his legs."
Mr Burney, a prominent rights activist who is part of a pre-election caretaker government, said President Pervez Musharraf had expressed "shock and disbelief" and agreed to grant Singh his freedom in coming days.
"Kashmir Singh has gone through hell during the last 35 years. He has suffered more than enough for his alleged crime," Mr Burney said.
He added that he was now trying to trace Singh's family in India.
Nuclear-armed Pakistan and India have fought three wars since their independence in 1947 but launched a slow-moving peace process in 2004.
They have recently held a series of prisoner exchanges, mainly of fishermen who strayed into each others' territorial waters and were detained.
Four arrested for spying for China
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FOUR people were arrested in the US overnight on charges of spying for China in two separate cases including one involving the space shuttle, the Justice Department said.
New Orleans residents Tai Shen Kuo and Yu Xin Kang, and Gregg William Bergersen of Alexandria, Virginia, were arrested for passing US defence documents to China in one case.
In a second case, former Boeing engineer Dongfan "Greg" Chung was arrested on charges involving stealing and turning over to China Boeing trade secrets, including information involving the space shuttle.