E/CN.4/1997/7/Add.2 page 10 34. At a follow-up meeting with the Inspector-General and Deputy Inspector-General of Police for Karachi, the latter contradicted the Deputy Inspector-General of the Rangers, stating that seven individuals had been brought to the police station house in Central District, but that the police had then immediately returned the individuals to the Rangers for interrogation at a Ranger camp where they were still being detained. Although this would appear to be a violation of Pakistani law, it is consistent with widespread reports the Special Rapporteur received from NGOs and lawyers indicating that the Rangers detain criminal suspects at their camps. 35. In a communication dated 26 March 1996 from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Government of Pakistan transmitted the following information to the Special Rapporteur: Tanvir Adil Siddiqui (son of Tanzim Ahmed Siddiqui), Juaid son of Tanzim Ahmed Siddiqui and Umair Adil Siddiqui were arrested on 28 February 1996 at Temouria Karachi Central Police Station under various provisions of the Pakistan Penal Code and Arms Ordinance; S. Ashraf Ali (Sharafat son of S. Hashmad Ali), Nusrat Ali (son of S. Hashmad Ali) and Noshad Ali (son of S. Hashmad Ali) were arrested on 29 February at Police Station New Karachi, also under various provisions of the Pakistan Penal Code and Arms Ordinance. All the above-mentioned individuals had been remanded by the concerned courts to judicial custody and were confined in Central Prison, Karachi. In this communication, it was also stated that Azizi Mustafa, Waseen Siddiqui (son of Tanzim Ahmed Siddiqui) and Muhammad Saleem had not been arrested by the police or by the Rangers. 36. The Deputy Inspector-General of Police for Karachi informed the Special Rapporteur that, as an additional safeguard to prevent arbitrary detention by individual station house officers, he had initiated a policy under which a duty officer has been assigned to each station house in Karachi. It was that officer’s responsibility to register all individuals who have been arrested and to report to the Deputy Inspector-General of Police if the proper procedures had not been followed. That duty officer was under his direct command rather than that of the station house officer. 37. During his visit to a police station house in Karachi, on 1 March 1996, the Special Rapporteur had the opportunity to see how this policy was being implemented. The duty officer explained to the Special Rapporteur that the date and time of all arrests made within the precinct of the police station house must be immediately recorded in the register. However, the duty officer does not record the presence of an individual who had been brought to the station house for interrogation but who has not been arrested. That information was registered in the daily diary of the station house. Upon inspection, the Special Rapporteur noted that the last entry in the register had been made on 26 February. Furthermore, there was no record in the daily diary of anyone having been interrogated between 26 February and 1 March. The duty officer was clearly of much lower rank than the station house officer and appeared to the Special Rapporteur to evince distinct signs of nervousness, tending to look in the direction of the station house officer before responding to the Special Rapporteur’s questions. 38. The Special Rapporteur also spoke in private to two individuals who were being held in the lock-up at the station house, both of whom had been