ISLAMABAD: After being subjected to a strip search, Dr Aafia Siddiqui, the Pakistani woman held by the Americans on account of terrorism charges, is not allowed to receive even ordinary mail in the New York jail.
Barrister Iqbal Jafree, her lawyer, while talking to The News disclosed that he and a few members of Dr Aafia [...]
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Wednesday issued notices to the interior ministry and the attorney general of Pakistan on a contempt petition filed by Barrister Iqbal Jafferry, counsel for Dr Aafia Siddiqui, an American captive.
The counsel submitted that the court had earlier directed the government to take necessary actions for the release and repatriation [...]
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Wednesday issued notices to the attorney general of Pakistan and the Interior Ministry on a contempt petition against the federal government for not taking the case of Dr Aafia Siddiqui to the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
The court also directed the respondents to file replies by December 10. Barrister [...]
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Interior on Saturday decided to formulate a resolution to press the US to release Dr Aafia Siddiqui, the Pakistani scientist detained by Washington for allegedly attacking US officials.
The resolution would be submitted to the Ministry of Law and Justice for further consideration. The committee, which met with Senator Talha [...]
ISLAMABAD: Standing Committee on Interior on Saturday discussed progress on release of Dr. Afia.
The meeting chaired by Senator Talha Mehmood was attended by senator Israrullah Zehri, Najma Hameed, Tahir Hussain Mashadi, Almas Parveen, Gulshan Syed and Haji Adeel and Interior Minister Rehman Malik.
A representative of Foreign Office told the meeting that with the consultation of [...]
NEW YORK: A US Federal Court rejected on Thursday Dr Aafia Siddiqui’s defence team’s appeal to throw out the case against her since the alleged crime was not committed on the American soil.
At a pre-trial hearing Judge Richard Berman cited a congressional statute as well as past precedent to rule that the court had jurisdiction [...]
NEW YORK – While a defiant Aafia Siddiqui declared that she would boycott her trial in January, a federal judge Thursday rejected her lawyers’ plea that she could not be tried in the United States as they pointed out that the Pakistani neuroscientist’s alleged crime took place outside the country. Ms Siddiqui, who was brought [...]
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly Standing Committee on Human Rights on Thursday adopted a unanimous resolution demanding early release of Dr Aafia Siddiqui from US detention.
The committee decided that Dr Aafia’s sister, Fauzia Siddiqui, would be invited in the next meeting to share details of her sister’s case. It also considered sending a delegation of selected [...]
NEW YORK, Nov 20 (APP): A federal judge Thursday rejected a defence lawyers’ plea that Dr. Aafia Siddiqui could not be tried in the United States as they pointed out that the Pakistani neuroscientist’s alleged crime took place outside the country, while she vowed to boycott her January trial.
Ms. Siddiqui, 37, is languishing in a [...]
“Why do they hate us?” This simple, yet loaded five word question has literally outperformed the thousands of answers that have been put forth. This is because comprehensive responses are rarely as powerful as a simple question. Aafia Siddiqui’s case suffers from the very same dynamic; it is complex, it is detailed and it raises [...]
