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Free legal aid for Dr Aafia
LAHORE – Lawyers here have flayed the UN, OIC and the Government of Pakistan for not taking notice of the 86-year long sentence passed on Dr Aafia Siddique in serious violation of the human rights norms.
The lawyers said under the international law, the appeal filed against conviction to Dr Aafia commands earliest decision as the alleged offence was not proved but no pain has been taken to hear the appeals and no body bothered to agitate this issue.
SOURCE : Nation.com.pk
Scores rally for Aafia release
LAHORE – Scores of activists of religious and political parties took out a rally titled ‘All Pakistan Aafia Rally’ outside the Lahore Press Club Friday.
The rally was part of observing black day to protest for the release of Dr Aafia Siddiqui, who has been languishing in the US jail. Workers of various parties, including PML-N, JI, JUI, Tehrik-i-Istaqlal, Tehrik-i-Hurmate-i-Rasool and Khaksar Tehrik, observed the day, condemning the verdict against Dr Aafia and demanding the government mount up pressure on the US to secure her release.
Protest on the day of Eid-ul-Fitr for Dr. Aafia
Aafia Movement arranged a protest on the day of Eid in Islamabad. Protestors demand to release her because she spends 18th Eid in US jail. They said that American government could not be proving any charge on her. Dated: 31-08-2011
Protest held for Aafia’s release
ISLAMABAD – Civil society members on Wednesday held a protest demonstration outside the National Press Club to press their demand for Dr Aafia Siddiqui’s release from an American jail before the 18th Eid of her imprisonment.
The protesters slammed the government’s indifference towards the issue and chanted anti-US slogans. They described Aafia as the daughter of the whole Muslim world and said every Muslim country should raise its voice to get her released.
In a written letter presented during the protest, Aafia’s mother appealed to the US and Pakistani governments to make possible the release of her daughter before Eid, a move that could also stable the US economy and strengthen the relation between the two countries.
Pak Taliban Kidnap two Swiss Tourists as Ransom for Aafia Siddiqui
For the past four weeks two Swiss citizens, David O. and Daniela W., both active police personnel, on a private trip across Pakistan have found themselves in the limelight of the continuous feud involving Pakistan and the US. For reasons best known to them, they were traversing Buy cialis online the North-West frontier Province (NWFP) in a VW van. Though a part of their route had a security detail accompanying them, they were apparently kidnapped by the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and taken to North Waziristan.
The fading Swiss neutrality, which once had a sobering influence world-wide and since Switzerland’s entry to the United Nations a decade ago has faded, shows the same limitations that many nations face when confronted with brute force.
IJN RELEASES NEW EVIDENCE IN CASE OF DR AAFIA SIDDIQUI – CALLS FOR REPATRIATION
Early Monday morning, International Justice Network published a report regarding the highly controversial case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui. Representing the Siddiqui Family in the United States, IJN has spent the past 14 months researching the circumstances surrounding the unusual arrest and custody of the Pakistani mother of three. Supported with previously unreleased evidence, IJN has uncovered direct involvement by Pakistan agencies in the disappearance of Dr. Aafia and her three young children in March 2003 — five years before the US government claims she was first arrested in Afghanistan in July 2008.
The report, Aafia Siddiqui: Just the Facts, reveals shocking new evidence that contradicts official statements from governments of both Pakistan and the United States that Dr. Siddiqui was not detained in their custody prior to her arrest in 2008. IJN has obtained a secret audio recording of a senior Pakistani police official who admits he was personally involved in the arrest of Dr. Siddiqui and her children eight years ago.
British Parliamentarians for the release of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui
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 MP Muhammad Sarwar have stressed that Dr.Siddiqui’s cause has become a rallying point for the people of Pakistan .
“We must stress that anti-American feeling her treatment is causing in an area key to success against extremist insurgency,” the Parliamentarians said.
‘Long March’ for Aafia’s release from 10th
ISLAMABAD – Exhibiting grave concerns over the alleged sluggishness of the PPP-led regime to get Dr Aafia Siddique released from illegal imprisonment of USA, civil society activists on Wednesday announced to launch “Long March” from 10th of March.
A series of events are in pipeline as a part of a “Long March” that would be launched from Faisalabad Bar Association. The announcement was made in a peaceful demonstration at Abpara Chowk organised by the Pakistan Professionals Forum and student community of the twin cities to condemn and convey shock and abhorrence against the unjust verdict in Dr Aafia Siddique’s case and to show solidarity with her and her family.
NA body asks govt to move ICJ for Aafia’s release
ISLAMABAD (Online) – The Standing Committee of the National Assembly has directed the Ministry of Law, Foreign Affairs and human rights organisations to finalise a strategy collectively to move to International Court of Justice (ICJ) for the release of Dr Aafia Siddiqui.
The NA Standing Committee met here Wednesday with Riaz Fatayana in the chair. Dr Fauzai Sadiqui, sister of Dr Aafia Saddiqui, attended the meeting on the special invitation. The committee reviewed the measures taken by the government regarding release of Dr Aafia.
Dr Fauzia termed the performance of Pakistan’s ambassador to the US Hussain Haqqani as unsatisfactorily. Riaz Fatayana said law regarding trial of any accused inside the local court before handing over to foreign country exists. Trial against Dr Aafia should have been held in Pakistan or Afghanistan, the committee said. Member NA Standing Committee Javed Hashmi on the occasion said Hussain Haqqani failed to satisfy him during his visit to the Untied States on the issue of Dr Aafia.
People urged to struggle for release of Dr Aafia
Islamabad : Pakistan Professionals Forum (PPF) and the civil society based in the federal capital staged a protest rally here Wednesday at Aabpara Chowk to condemn and reject, in unequivocal terms, the illegal detention and conviction of Dr Aafia Siddiqui by the NY court.
The protestors including doctors, engineers, lawyers, academicians, students, and other professionals, while carrying placards and banners, chanted slogans and demanded international human rights organisations to play their due role in the release of Aafia Siddiqui.
The rally was addressed by Dr Fauzia Siddiqui, the sister of Dr Aafia Siddiqui, President PPF Asif Luqman Qazi, Chairperson Defence of Human Rights Amina Janjua, and other civil society activists and student leaders.
