The UK-based Association of Pakistan Lawyers (APL) has demanded withdrawal of case against Dr Aafia Siddiqui declaring the conviction unsafe and has called for a public enquiry regarding her treatment. The APL, according to its chair barrister Amjad Malik following its executive committee meeting, has despatched letters to the US leadership [...]
NEW YORK: The lawyers of Dr Aafia Siddiqui, who has been convicted in a US court, refused to accept the verdict against the US-educated girl.
Siddiqui, a tiny, frail woman dressed in a beige tunic and white headscarf covering her mouth and forehead, showed no emotion as the jury pronounced its verdict.
After the verdict, outside the [...]
A lawyer for Aafia Siddiqui, the Pakistani neuroscientist, has denounced extra security measures at a U.S. court requiring visitors at her trial to show identification and sign in even after passing through two check points.
The extra security check comes on top of a metal detector placed outside the doorway of the Manhattan courtroom on the [...]
Dr Aafia Siddiqui’s mother, Ismat Siddiqui, has said that her daughter will not get a fair trial under the current setting because she has been denied lawyers of her choice.
In a letter addressed to Judge Richard Berman, which was released to the media on Wednesday, she said: “I do not believe that Aafia will get [...]
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Ministry on Friday informed National Assembly that government of Pakistan has spent Rs 2 million dollars for a team of lawyers for hearing the case of Dr Aafia Siddiqui.
During a Question-Hour in the National Assembly, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Nawabzada Malik Amad Khan on Friday told the House that the next hearing [...]
Lahore High Court on Tuesday asked the federal government to submit its response within 10 days on hiring US lawyers on behalf of Dr Aafia Siddiqui without taking her into confidence, a private TV reported. Barrister Iqbal Ahmed Jafferi pleaded before a single-member bench of LHC comprising of Justice Ejaz Ahmed Chaudhry that the government [...]
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON: Lawyers hired by the Pakistan government to defend Dr Aafia Siddiqui in her trial discussed their plan of action with the top Pakistani diplomat in the US on Saturday, according to official sources.
The new team of eminent lawyers – Charles Swift, Linda Moreno and Elaine Sharp – were approved at a hearing in [...]
NEW YORK: Two of the three new lawyers engaged by Pakistani government to defend Dr Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist accused of firing on US soldiers, will travel to Afghanistan and Pakistan to gather facts to bolster their case in the court.
The new team of lawyers — Charles Swift, Linda Moreno and Elaine Sharp — [...]
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON: Lawyers retained by the Pakistan government to defend Aafia Siddiqui, who faces trial for allegedly shooting at U.S. interrogators in Afghanistan, Friday discussed their plan of action with the top Pakistani diplomat, according to official sources. The new team of eminent lawyers—Charles Swift, Ms. Linda Moreno and Ms. Elaine [...]
NEW YORK – The new team of lawyers defending Aafia Siddiqui, who faces trial for the attempted murder of U.S. interrogators in Afghanistan last year, says it is confident that the Pakistani neuroscientist had harmed no one and was innocent of the charges leveled against her.
“We thank the court for granting our entry into this [...]
