Dr Aafia Siddiqui

Pak terror suspect Aafia says one of the interrogators was Indian

Pak terror suspect Aafia says one of the interrogators was IndianIslamabad, Jan 16 : Pakistani "terror suspect" Dr Aafia Siddiqui, who is on trial in the United States, has alleged that one of the interrogators at the Bagram Air Force base in Afghanistan was an Indian.

According to a report prepared by the by Pakistan Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Dr Aafia has narrated her entire story to a delegation of the committee that went to see her, telling them how she was arrested from Pakistan and later shifted to Bagram.

Pak Govt. hasn’t provided funds for pleading Aafia’s case

Dr Aafia SiddiquiKarachi, Nov 22 : The Pakistan Government has still not provided the promised funds to Dr. Aafia Sidiqui’s family to enable them to plead her case in the US court.

According to The News, Aafia’s family was given repeated assurances from the government, but they have not been given any funds for hiring the services of a lawyer till now. The case is being heard in a Texas District Court.

They added that all the required information, including the name of the lawyer and the details of the probable legal expenses relating to the case, were sent to the government in August.

Let Afia go home - UAE Newspaper Editorial

Aafia SiddiquiDhabi, Nov 21st, 2008 : How a mother of three children is victimised by allegations of her unproven link to terrorism featured the editorial of a UAE newspaper today.

'Clearly, she is one of those hundreds of people, most of them innocents, abducted as part of the war on terror', said the paper.

Under the title 'Let Afia Siddiqui go home', Khaleej Times wrote:.

'There is no end in sight for the ordeal of Dr Aafia Siddiqui who has been in the US detention for the past five years.

Pak envoy demands immediate repatriation of “mentally unfit” Dr Aafia

Dr Aafia SiddiquiNew York, Nov 20: Pakistan ambassador to the US Hussain Haqqani has demanded that “terror suspect” Dr Aafia Siddiqui (put in a US jail and facing trial) should be immediately repatriated to Pakistan, after an American court found her “mentally” unfit to stand trial.

In a letter to the American government, Haqqani urged the US administration to arrange for an “immediate repatriation” of Siddiqui so that she could be looked after in her home country.

Pak HR activist files petition for recovery of Dr Aafia from US jail

Dr Aafia SiddiquiKarachi, Nov 18: A leading Pakistani human rights activist has reportedly filed a constitutional petition seeking intervention by the Sindh High Court (SHC) to ensure the release and safe return of Dr Aafia Siddiqui, who is presently put in a US jail facing legal trial on terror charges.

'Dr Aafia’s arrest beyond even Hollywood scriptwriter’s wildest dreams'

'Dr Aafia’s arrest beyond even Hollywood scriptwriter’s wildest dreams'Islamabad, Oct 29 : A British journalist has said that the situation in which Pakistani neuroscientist Dr Aafia Siddiqui was shot at and arrested by American military men could not have even been visualized by a Hollywood scriptwriter.

The journalist also deplored the circumstances in which Dr Aafia was arrested after she allegedly “attacked two armed US soldiers in Kabul”.

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