LAHORE – Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry of the Lahore High Court on Tuesday asked the federal government to produce the treaty document under which Pakistan could not take Dr Aafia’s case to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) without prior permission of the US.
The judge issued this direction while hearing a petition seeking action against [...]
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Interior on Saturday asked the Law Ministry to give its opinion on the possibilities of taking the case of Dr Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani scientist detained in the US, to the International Court of Justice.
Earlier, Dr Aafia’s elder sister, Dr Fauzia Siddiqui, informed the committee that the government had [...]
THE Judicial Activism Panel, in an emergency meeting on Friday, chalked out strategy to deal with the situation after the government’s failure for recovery of Dr Aafia Siddiqui from the custody of the US government.
According to a press statement, the JAP claimed that it had demanded the government file a case against the US government [...]
PAKISTAN Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Woman Wing Punjab has demanded the federal government take immediate and concrete steps to bring back Dr. Aafia immediately, as there is no excuse to delay the matter.
The PTI women leaders, including President Punjab Saloni Bokhari, Secretary General Punjab Shamsa Ali Advocate and Secretary Information Punjab Talat Naqvi, said the meeting of [...]
KARACHI: A Sindh High Court (SHC) division bench asked the federal government to file or otherwise comment on the constitution petitions pertaining to the repatriation of Dr Aafia Siddiqui and her two children from the custody of US authorities back to Pakistan.
The bench, comprising Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali and Justice Muhammad Karim Khan Agha, [...]
ISLAMABAD — Handing down its verdict in Dr Aafia case, Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday directed the Ministry for Foreign Affairs to expedite its efforts for an early repatriation of Pakistani born American neuroscientist detained in a US prison on the charge of attempting to kill an American soldier.
Disposing a petition filed by a [...]
Islamabad: A Pakistani national, who spent seven years at the Guantanamo Bay, has appealed to the government to take immediate steps for the release of six Pakistanis put through extreme torture in the dreaded prison run by the US military on the Cuban island.
Qari Saeed Iqbal disclosed that of the total 260 prisoners [...]
