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Govt played no part in recovery of Dr Aafia’s children: Soori

KARACHI: The role of present government in recovery of Dr Aafia Siddiqui’s son and daughter, Ahmed and Maryam , remained nothing except just holding photo sessions, said Human Rights Network (HRC) Karachi President Intikhab Alam Soori. In a statement here on Monday, he stated that soon after the recovery of both children, Interior Minister took [...]

[ More ] April 13th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in News |

Come clean, there is still time

It’s official: according to none other than this journal of record, the 12-year old child “left outside a house in Karachi [on Sunday, April 4, 2008] is the missing daughter of Dr Aafia Siddiqui, the neuroscientist who was convicted in a US court for shooting at her US interrogators in Afghanistan.”
The [...]

[ More ] April 13th, 2010 | 2 Comments | Posted in News |

Talha urges PM to take up Dr Aafia’s issue in US

ISLAMABAD: Chairman of the Senate’s Standing Committee on Interior Senator Talha Mehmood has urged the Prime Minister to take up the issue of Dr Aafia Siddiqui with the US President on the sidelines of Nuclear Security Summit.
Addressing a press conference here on Saturday the Chairman said Dr Aafia’s trial in US [...]

[ More ] April 11th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in News |

Has Aafia Siddiqui’s Daughter Surfaced?

Aafia Siddiqui has been at the center of one of the many mysteries flowing from the Bush and Obama administrations’ conduct of  intelligence operations. A Pakistani native and former MIT scientist, background on Siddiqui can be found several places, including a Seminal diary by ondelette here.
The stories of Siddiqui’s disappearance and  [...]

[ More ] April 11th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in News |

DNA proves girl as Aafia’s daughter: Malik

ISLAMABAD: The baby girl found from outside the house of Dr Fauzia, turned out to be the daughter of Dr Aafia Siddiqui, detained in US on alleged terror charges, Geo News reported Saturday.
Talking to media, Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik revealed that the DNA test proved that the child is the [...]

[ More ] April 11th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in News |

Recovered girl Dr. Aafia’s daughter

Pakistan confirms that an 11-year old girl, who has been in US custody for seven years and let loose in Karachi by unknown people, is the daughter of Aafia Siddiqui.
Daily Times, quoted the country’s Interior Minister, Rehman Malik, confirming the girl, Maryam Khan, as the daughter of Aafia Siddiqui.
A US citizen [...]

[ More ] April 11th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in News |

Return of Dr Aafia’s daughter welcomed

Karachi: The Human Rights Network (HRN) on Saturday welcome the return of Marium, the daughter [...]

[ More ] April 11th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in News |

Dr. Aafia’s 12 year old daughter liberated from US Bagram Airbase

US citizen, and MIT graduate, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui mysteriously disappeared on a trip to Pakistan. Six years later Dr. Aafia was discovered at the American Air Force base at Bagram in Afghanistan. She had been brutally raped and tortured for years. The woman was then transferred to the US and charged [...]

[ More ] April 10th, 2010 | 1 Comment | Posted in News |

Govt formally declares teenage girl as Aafia’s daughter

The Government has formally declared 12 years old Maryam as daughter of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui after proved by DNA Test and the girl handed over to the family of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui.
Dr. Fauzia Siddiqui, sister of Dr Aafia Siddiqui visited the Interior Ministry with 12 years old Maryam on Saturday and [...]

[ More ] April 10th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in News |

British Parliamentarians for the release of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui

LONDON (UK): Four British Muslim Parliamentarians have demanded release of Dr.Aafia Siddiqui from the US custody and her return to Pakistan along with her two missing children.
In a letter addressed to US President Barack Obama and released to the media, Lord Nazir Ahmed along with Lord Altaf Sheikh, Lord Patel and [...]

[ More ] April 9th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in News |