ISLAMABAD: Chairman of the Senate’s Standing Committee on Interior Senator Talha Mehmood has urged the Prime Minister to take up the issue of Dr Aafia Siddiqui with the US President on the sidelines of Nuclear Security Summit.
Addressing a press conference here on Saturday the Chairman said Dr Aafia’s trial in US [...]
Pakistan confirms that an 11-year old girl, who has been in US custody for seven years and let loose in Karachi by unknown people, is the daughter of Aafia Siddiqui.
Daily Times, quoted the country’s Interior Minister, Rehman Malik, confirming the girl, Maryam Khan, as the daughter of Aafia Siddiqui.
A US citizen [...]
Karachi: The Human Rights Network (HRN) on Saturday welcome the return of Marium, the daughter [...]
US citizen, and MIT graduate, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui mysteriously disappeared on a trip to Pakistan. Six years later Dr. Aafia was discovered at the American Air Force base at Bagram in Afghanistan. She had been brutally raped and tortured for years. The woman was then transferred to the US and charged [...]
LONDON (UK): Four British Muslim Parliamentarians have demanded release of Dr.Aafia Siddiqui from the US custody and her return to Pakistan along with her two missing children.
In a letter addressed to US President Barack Obama and released to the media, Lord Nazir Ahmed along with Lord Altaf Sheikh, Lord Patel and [...]
By Faraz Khan
KARACHI: A 12-year-old girl was abandoned outside the residence of Dr Aafia Siddiqui’s sister on Sunday, leading to speculations that the girl might be Aafia’s daughter who went missing seven years ago.
However, Dr Fauzia Siddiqui, Aafia’s sister doubted that the girl was actually Aafia’s daughter and called the [...]
Today, Dr. Aafia Siddiqi’s long lost daughter was returned to the family. It is still not clear whether the girl can speak fluent English or even if she really is Dr. Aafia Siddiqi’s daughter, but efforts are under way to find out the truth.
Apparently, some unidentified people left 11-year old Marium [...]
ISLAMABAD – The government has quietly taken a U-turn on Aafia Siddiqui’s case letting the Americans decide her fate, top-level credible sources told TheNation on Thursday.
To the shock and disbelief of common Pakistanis, government authorities have quietly conveyed to the Americans that Pakistan is no more interested to pursue this [...]
The anger that one feels at the arbitrary arrest of Dr Aafia get further intensified as she completes seven years of detention. And thoughts inevitably turn to the fate of her three children, 9-year old Maryam and two young sons who went missing with her. Their abduction, for which her sister [...]
KARACHI: British Muslim journalist Maryam Ridley has said Tuesday that Dr Aafia Siddique has no connection with any terrorist organisation, including Al-qaeeda and Taliban.
Ridley voiced these views while addressing students of Institute of Business Administration in Karachi. She said that Dr Aafia’s case has been presented in front of American [...]
