ISLAMABAD: The counsel for Dr AQ Khan and detained Pakistani woman in the US Dr Aafia Siddiqui has announced to lodge an FIR against ex-president Pervez Musharraf and the Quaid of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Mian Nawaz Sharif at a police station of Islamabad on Thursday (tomorrow).
Barrister Javed Iqbal Jaffery told our sources that Gen [...]
By Benjamin Weiser
A federal prosecutor said Monday that two psychiatrists who have examined Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist charged with trying to kill an American soldier and F.B.I. agents while in custody in Afghanistan, said she was not suffering from psychological illness that would render her unfit for trial. That assessment was in contrast to [...]
On his release from Guantanamo Bay, Badr-uz-Zaman and his brother Abdul Rahim Muslim Dost set about writing a book on their experiences in Pashto. Soon after the publication of the book Dost was detained and Badr-uz-Zaman was forced to go on the run. In this rare interview, Cageprisoners managed to speak with him about the [...]
Sharing the surveillance tape of a prisoner, Steffey, in US custody, who was stripped naked in a jail cell by seven deputies, Dr Aafia’s mother, Ismat Siddiqui, appealed to the government to secure her daughter’s release, saying that she was undergoing similar kind of torture and assault by US authorities.
Addressing a press conference at Dr [...]
KARACHI – Mehfooz Yaar Khan, president of Awami Muslim League, on Saturday submitted a petition in Sindh High Court (SHC) to bring the US officials who harassed Dr Aafia and conduct legal proceedings against them in the Pakistani courts.
The plaintiff said that when a delegation of Senate Standing Committee led by Shahid Hussain Syed had [...]
Innalhamdolillah! Bismillah hir Rahman nir Raheem
[Alhamdolillah, an MM reader alerted us about the upcoming hearing of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui. May Allah bless the Muslims who seek to ease the suffering of their brothers and sisters, and those who stand up for the oppressed. Ameen.]
Finally the cat is out of sac. The latest “victim” of Islamophobia, Eurocentricism, Secular Fascism and other such terms which Pakistani right wing, liberal and confused progressive misuse turns out to be a Jihadi. For months now Pakistani Right wing media have lamented the “innocent muslim girl” the great scientist of MIT, the “good mohajir” [...]
KARACHI: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs was making efforts on a diplomatic front to ensure the return of Dr Aafia Siddiqui to Pakistan.
This was stated in comments filed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs here on Wednesday before a division bench of the Sindh High Court (SHC). When the petition filed by a human rights [...]
Claims most reports in the local media are false, suspects his two ‘missing’ children are in Karachi
KARACHI: After six years of silence, Dr Muhammad Amjad Khan, ex-husband of Dr Aafia Siddiqui, has finally spoken up and says that most of the press reports that relate to his former wife as well as his children [...]
ISLAMABAD : President Asif Ali Zardari is to pay a four day visit to China from 20th of this month.
Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit said at the weekly news briefing in Islamabad on Thursday that the visit will provide an opportunity to both sides to explore avenues of economic cooperation and investment especially in agriculture, [...]
