Pakistan deports Briton detained for suspected al-Qaeda links

Pakistan has deported a British man held without charge here for more than a year and tortured on suspicion of links to al-Qaeda, a leading rights group said yesterday.
Rangzieb Ahmed was arrested in August 2006 in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province but was never charged with any crime, New York-based Human Rights Watch said.
Ahmed alleged that he was interrogated several times by US law enforcement personnel from unidentified agencies and interviewed by British security services during his incarceration, it said.
He was released this week on the orders of the country's Supreme Court, which is hearing multiple cases of missing persons, most of them in the custody of the country's powerful intelligence agencies.