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Bosnia arrests Pakistani for threatening prosecutors
| Musta thought he was back in Peshawar... |
 SARAJEVO: A Pakistani man has been arrested in Bosnia for allegedly threatening international prosecutors of organised crime and corruption, Srna news agency quoted police as saying on Saturday. Ahmed Istikhar, who lives in the central town of Zenica, is suspected of links to recent security threats targeting prosecutors, said Robert Cvrtak, the Muslim-Croat Federation police spokesman. He said that Istikhar was also allegedly involved in human trafficking and contraband trade. Neither the police nor the international prosecutors were available for further comment.
"We can say no more!"
"We can't, either!" |
On Thursday Canadian prosecutor John McNair told AFP that his colleague, US prosecutor Jonathan Schmidt, had not appeared in court on the previous day due to security threats. Mr McNair, head of the state prosecutor's special department for organised crime, economic crime and corruption, did not elaborate further. The special department comprises six international prosecutors. The state court and prosecutor's office was set up in 2002 by the international community's High Representative in Bosnia, Paddy Ashdown. It aims to strengthen the rule of law in the Balkan country, which has been divided into the Serbs' Republika Sprska and the Muslim-Croat Federation following the end of the Bosnian war.
Posted by: Fred 2004-11-21 |
