ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Saturday said his government has approved $2 million to hire a three-member lawyers panel in consultation of Dr Aafia Siddiqui’s elder brother, Muhammad Ali Siddiqui.
The prime minister was talking to Dr Fouzia Siddiqui, Dr Aafia’s sister at the Prime Minister’s House. The premier assured Dr Fouzia that the [...]
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday sought a reply from the foreign and interior ministries by August 17 about the efforts made for the repatriation of Dr Aafia Siddiqui, the Pakistani-born scientist detained in the United States.
The LHC said the matter should be taken up with the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
The court [...]
NEW YORK: Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, the Pakistani neuroscientist accused of attempting to kill American soldiers and F.B.I. agents in Afghanistan, has been found competent to stand trial by a U.S. judge in New York City. The judge, Richard Berman of United States District Court, said in a 36?page decision Wednesday that [...]
WASHINGTON: Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States Husain Haqqani on Monday phoned detained scientist Dr Aafia Siddiqui and discussed with her the government’s efforts to secure her release and repatriation to homeland.
Ambassador Haqqani enquired Ms Siddiqui about her health and assured of the efforts the government of Pakistan is making for her release and legal [...]
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 [...]
NEW YORK: Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui charged with helping Al Qaeda and for shooting at US law-enforcement officials in Afghanistan was brought to a New York court on Monday for a hearing to determine whether she was competent to stand trial.
Ms Siddiqui’s lawyer, Dawn Cardi, told journalists that Judge Richard Berman had given permission to [...]
NEW YORK – Dr Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuro scientist under US detention, set the record straight Monday on the government allegations that she tried to kill American soldiers and FBI agents in Afghanistan, saying she did not shoot at any one.
“I did not shoot anybody, and I did not fire at any body,” Dr [...]
NEW YORK – A psychologist, detailed by the US prosecutors to evaluate the mental condition of Dr Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist who is in US custody on terrorism charges, claims that she (Siddiqui) was living freely in Pakistan and Afghanistan for portions of the five years before her arrest last year.
Experts and some of [...]
