By Amara Hashmi and Hajira Talbot
Wheelchair-bound and only able to communicate with her lawyer through a hole at the bottom of her cell door, Dr Aafia Siddiqui is a ghost of the vibrant woman she was six years ago, and looks a far cry from the stark picture painted by US authorities as the [...]
By Bill Van Auken
Lawyers for Dr. Aafia Siddiqui held a press conference in Brooklyn, New York Monday to demand that their client, a 36-year-old mother of three, be transferred immediately from federal jail to a hospital for treatment of gunshot wounds inflicted by US personnel before she was brought to the US to face trial.
Dr. [...]
Child Is Too Young to Be Treated as Criminal Suspect
(New York, August 27, 2008) – The Afghan government should immediately relinquish 11-year-old Ahmed Siddiqui to the custody of his family, Human Rights Watch said today. Siddiqui, a US citizen, is believed to be the son of Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani woman held on US federal [...]
By LARRY NEUMEISTER
Associated Press Writer
To supporters, Aafia Siddiqui is a devout Muslim and MIT and Brandeis-educated scholar who fled to Pakistan after 9/11 because of anti-Muslim sentiment.
To U.S. authorities, she is the lunatic fringe of its terrorist enemies, willing to shoot at an Army officer or blow up the Statue of Liberty.
Siddiqui, 36, now [...]
ISLAMABAD ” The National Assembly on Thursday unanimously passed a resolution for strongly condemning the publication of blasphemous caricatures of Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and his companions (Sahaba) in an Indian newspaper. In another resolution, the House demanded of the United States for immediate repatriation of Pakistani national Dr Aafia Siddiqui.
The Assembly demanded of the [...]
By Zofeen Ebrahim
KARACHI, Aug 20 (IPS) – ‘’For you it’s just another story. If you want the truth go to Ghazni where you will get more than I can ever tell you about my sister,” said a distraught Fouzia Siddiqi, speaking with IPS, in a voice breaking with helpless desperation.
Fouzia’s younger sister, Aafia Siddiqi, 35, [...]
Distinguished members of the Senate
Assalaamu ‘alaykum
First of all I thank you all for providing me this opportunity to talk to you. For years our family was enduring this plight on our own. Few months back, I felt I was alone with an ailing mother, but today I feel I have millions of family members with [...]
By DEEPAK TRIPATHI
The recent appearance of Dr Aafia Siddiqi in a New York court (August 5, 2008) has brought another disturbing episode in the ‘war on terror’ of President George W. Bush to light. According to a lawyer acting for Dr Siddiqui, an American-educated scientist of Pakistani origin, her client was brought to New [...]
By Aijaz Zaka Syed
Just when you think that Uncle Sam’s war of terror has no more surprises to spring on an unsuspecting world, it comes up with yet another gem.
Take the case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist who grew up in the U.S. and went to top universities, including the prestigious Massachusetts Institute [...]
LETTER :We at the US Embassy Islamabad have read with increasing concern a number of erroneous and irresponsible media reports regarding the arrest of Ms Aafia Siddiqui. We commend the majority of Pakistani journalists for their accurate and balanced reporting and overall professionalism. Sadly, however, a few have allowed rumour, innuendo, and grossly unsubstantiated allegations [...]
