NEW YORK/WASHINGTON: Lawyers retained by the Pakistan government to defend Aafia Siddiqui, who faces trial for allegedly shooting at U.S. interrogators in Afghanistan, Friday discussed their plan of action with the top Pakistani diplomat, according to official sources. The new team of eminent lawyers—Charles Swift, Ms. Linda Moreno and Ms. Elaine [...]
NEW YORK: Asserting that she believes in peace, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist under U.S. detention, Monday made an impassioned denial of government allegations that she tried to kill American soldiers and F.B.I. agents in Afghanistan. “I did not shoot anybody, and I did not fire at anybody,” Dr. [...]
NEW YORK: Dr Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist currently detained in the US, on Monday rejected the US government’s allegations that she tried to kill American soldiers and FBI agents in Afghanistan.
“ I did not shoot anybody, and I did not fire at anybody,” Aafia, 37, told a US District Court, which was holding a [...]
KARACHI, Jan.15, (APP): The hearing of a constitution petition filed by an NGO Human Rights Network seeking safe return of Dr Afia Siddiqui was adjourned here on Thursday by a division bench of High Court of Sindh (SHC) comprising Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali and Justice Faisal Arab.
When the matter was [...]
In ‘Global assault on local peace’ (December 3), I suggested that three basic tactics which become clear from the case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui are dirty media, inquisition trials and ‘Zeroland’.
Dirty media is “the tool with which an individual or nation could be declared guilty without trial,” as I suggested. We can see this pattern [...]
Islamabad(ANI): Pakistani “terror suspect” Dr Aafia Siddiqui, who is on trial in the United States, has alleged that one of the interrogators at the Bagram Air Force base in Afghanistan was an Indian.
According to a report prepared by the by Pakistan Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Dr Aafia has narrated her entire story to [...]
Islamabad—A human rights body of the senate has urged the government to engage more intensely at the highest level with America to secure the repatriation of Dr Aafia Siddiqui.
A Joint Meeting of the Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was held at the Parliament House [...]
ISLAMABAD: Chairman Senate’s Standing Committee for Defence Nisar Memon has urged to summon US ambassador in the session and present a charge sheet against USA for an making objectionable video of Dr Aafia in New York jail.
The joint meeting of the Standing Committees for Human Rights and Foreign Affairs held in Parliament House under the [...]
KARACHI: A division bench of the Sindh High Court (SHC), comprising Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali and Justice Faisal Arab, expressed extreme displeasure over the government’s failure to submit comments or show any development in Dr Aafia Siddiqui’s repatriation case.
The bench was hearing a constitutional petition filed by the Human Rights Network, seeking the safe [...]
