E/CN.4/1996/35/Add.1 page 94 women’s police stations where the police officials are all women. Despite financial constraints, the Government was planning to open other such stations throughout the country. The Government had also incorporated into the Pakistan Penal Code an executive order that women should not be held in police stations overnight and should only be interrogated in the presence of their husbands or close relatives. 500. By the same letter and by an additional letter dated 11 February 1995, the Government provided replies, summarized below, to a number of individual cases transmitted in 1994. 501. With respect to Ghulam Mustafa Sindh in December 1992 by members of case of illegal detention or torture the relevant police station, nor had personnel. Soomro, who was allegedly tortured in the Rangers of the Kurram militia, no had been registered in 1992 or 1993 at any complaint been lodged against army 502. With respect to Babal Khatoon Shirazi, who was allegedly beaten to death by officers from Thatta police station and an army team on 18 December 1992, an inquiry had been conducted by the Thatta additional district magistrate. An investigation undertaken by the CIA was expected to be finalized shortly. 503. As to Nazir Massih, who died following an alleged beating on 21 May 1993 by two police constables at Batala Colony police station in Faisalabad, Punjab, an inquiry had revealed that his death was due to traumatic shock leading to cardiorespiratory failure. A case registered against the police officials was cancelled by the area magistrate in light of statements made by the deceased’s relatives that Nazir Masih was a drug addict, as well as the medical examiner’s findings that a high level of tranquillizer and alcohol was present in his blood and urine. The provincial government thereafter had ordered the district magistrate to conduct a thorough probe into the matter to ascertain the veracity of the reports. 504. With respect to Niaz Hussain Pathan, who was allegedly tortured to death in police custody in Kotdiji, Khairpur, a judicial inquiry had concluded that he was killed in an "encounter" with an inspector and SHO of Kotdiji police station. 505. With respect to Mujib Aijaz Jatoi, who was allegedly tortured to death in August 1993 in Sindh, an investigation conducted pursuant to a case registered against the subinspector of police under instructions from the Sindh High Court revealed that he had committed suicide. 506. As to Ashgar Narejo, who was allegedly beaten severely by army and police personnel near Karipour on 13 June 1992, an inquiry conducted by the subdivisional magistrate of Kingri had concluded that he was killed in an "encounter" with the police and a law enforcement agency in Keti Dodo Bhutto. 507. With respect to Khan Muhammad Korai, who was allegedly tortured to death by members of the 47 Frontier Force Regiment from Moro in August 1992, the Sindh High Court had ordered a case to be registered against the concerned

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