SWABI, Dec 20: The Islamabad police allegedly deprived two persons belonging to Swabi district, of cash, dubbing them as terrorists and tortured them to remain silent about the incident.

Mohammad Sajid and Himmat Faraz, residents of Baja village, told Dawn here on Friday that they went to Islamabad on Thursday to visit a cardiologist. From Peshawar Mor, Sajid said, they hired a taxi (IDB 2644)  which instead of taking them to the hospital drove them to a mobile party of the Islamabad police who declared them terrorists.

For more than two hours, they said they were kept in the police custody where the police kept on demanding money and at last after snatching Rs500 from them they were released.

They alleged that although only a cardiac scan, medical report, laboratory tests and prescription of a doctor, were recovered from their possession   yet the police insisted that they were terrorists and threatened them of dire consequences if they failed to grease their palm.

Mr Sajid said he would prefer death to a life of humiliation if he was not provided justice.

They said that they had reported the matter to the prime minister, interior minister, Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and all leading English newspapers, through a letter.