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Senate Demands Early Release of Aafia

Mian Raza Rabbani Thursday demanded the US administration to release Dr Afia and assured the House to take all possible measures for her release and provide all possible assistance.
“U.Sshould soon repatriate Dr Afia as it is the voice of the people of Pakistan,” said Mian Raza Rabbani responding to the words of Senator Mushahid [...]

[ More ] January 30th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in News |

Pakistan’s Gitmo Prisoners Pose Problem

by VIVIAN SALAMA, ISLAMABAD, Pakistan

Mohammed Saad Iqbal never imagined that his 26th birthday would be the first of many spent behind the concrete walls and barbed-wire fences of Guantanamo Bay.
(Matthew Tabaccos)

Mohammed Saad Iqbal never imagined that his 26th birthday would be the first of many spent behind the concrete walls and barbed-wire fences of Guantanamo [...]

[ More ] January 30th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Missing persons, News |

Closing Guantanamo – Clive Stafford Smith

It is the most potent symbol of the abuses of the Bush era: Obama’s swift decision to shut down Guantanamo Bay prison has been hailed as a new dawn for justice
Before the place closes, I might have a couple more opportunities to get down to Guantanamo Bay. Nothing very much has changed. Some of the [...]

[ More ] January 30th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Articles, Missing persons |

Senate committee presents Dr. Afia’s report

ISLAMABD: The Senate on Thursday again called on the United States to repatriate Dr Afia Siddiqui to Pakistan as nothing could be proved against her.Leader of the House in the Senate Mian Raza Rabbani condemned, what he called, the violation of fundamental human rights, the way Dr Afia was treated in the United States.

[ More ] January 30th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in News |

Senate demands America to immediately release Dr. Aafia

ISLAMABAD: The Upper House (Senate) has urged on America to immediately release Dr. Aafia, as her imprisonment is the violation of basic Human rights and has exposed the reality of American justice before the world.
Chairman Senate’s functional committee for Human Rights S.M Zafar and Senator Mushahid Hussain Syed presented a report in the house regarding [...]

[ More ] January 30th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in News |

Senate urges govt to bring back Aafia Siddiqui

ISLAMABAD: The Senate on Thursday renewed its demand from the United States to repatriate Dr Aafia Siddiqui to Pakistan.
The issue surfaced when two separate reports of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Functional Committee on Human Rights compiled after some senators met Aafia – who is currently detained in a New York jail [...]

[ More ] January 30th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in News |

Dr. Aafia to return to country soon: Malik

ISLAMABAD (SANA): Prime Minister’s Advisor on Interior Rehman Malik has said that according to the US Ambassador there was progress in Aafia Siddiqui case and she might return to Pakistan very soon.
He was speaking in the Senate after presentation of a report by Chairman of the House Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs Mushahid Hussain and [...]

[ More ] January 30th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in News |

“Can Obama Bring Back My Mother, Life?”

“Obama has no idea what I have lost.
I have lost everything,” Iqbal told
IOL in an exclusive interview.
LAHORE — Watching the news about US President Barack Obama’s decision to close down Guantanamo within a year did not bring a smile on the face of Mohammad Saad Iqbal.
It rather reminded the 31-year-old Pakistani of the hellish days [...]

[ More ] January 29th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in News |

After Guantánamo

By Barry Gewen

The day Franklin Roosevelt died, one reporter turned to another and said: “Now we’ll have to grow up.” The same might be said with the departure of George W. Bush. The era of Bush-bashing is over, and now we’ll have to grow up and start thinking seriously about a whole set of [...]

[ More ] January 29th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Articles, Missing persons |

Dr. Aafia’ case: Government of Pakistan violates both national and International Law

Dr. Aafia’ case: Government of Pakistan violates both national and International Law
Once read somewhere that an Ambassador of a country, based at Islamabad, commented for Pakistanis in this way:
“Price of a Pakistani oscillates between a bottle of whisky and a trip to United States; which has now been further degenerated into a trip to United [...]

[ More ] January 25th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in News |