By : Bilal A. Siddiqui
While almost everyone in Pakistan is concerned about the plight of a Muslim neurologist abducted by Pakistani intelligence agencies , handed over to the Americans and tortured for more than five years along with her three children (the youngest being just 6 months old at the time of [...]
The women wing of Jamat-e-Islami (JI) staged a protest outside the Idara-e-Noor-e-Haq on Thursday for what they termed as an unjust verdict announced by the US jury regarding Dr Afia Siddiqui.
The rally was taken out from JI headquarters to Islamia College and was led by the JI women wing leader Ayesha Munawar. The protestors carried [...]
ISLAMABAD: Senate Standing Committee on Interior will hold meeting on Thursday to discuss illegal detention of Dr. Afia Siddiqui in US custody. Chairman of the Committee Senator Muhammad Talha Mehmood will chair the meeting. In earlier meetings the committee has called upon the US administration to repatriate Dr. Afia Siddiqui [...]
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 [...]
* Pakistani scientist detained in US told Senate body she was arrested from Pakistan and later shifted to Bagram
By Muhammad Bilal
ISLAMABAD: Dr Aafia Siddiqi — a Pakistani national on trial in the United States – has alleged that one of the interrogators at the Bagram airbase was an Indian, according to a report [...]
