Karachi : Ismat Siddiqui and Dr Fauzia Siddiqui, mother and sister of Dr Aafia Siddiqi, called on Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Monday at the Governor House.
They family apprised the prime minister of the miseries being faced by them in the wake of the US jury verdict in the [...]
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Little seems to have changed regarding the treatment of prisoners held at the U.S. military-run Bagram prison since I was there (2002-2004). The recent study conducted by the BBC shows allegations of sleep deprivation, stress positions, beatings, degrading treatment, [...]
WASHINGTON: Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States Husain Haqqani met with detained Pakistani neuroscientist Dr Aafia Siddiqui in a Texas health facility and assured her of the government’s full support for her early repatriation to homeland. During the meeting lasting for an hour, the ambassador also arranged a telephonic conversation [...]
WASHINGTON:Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States Husain Haqqani met with detained Pakistani neuroscientist Dr Aafia Siddiqui in a Texas health facility and assured her of the government’s full support for her early repatriation to homeland.
During the meeting lasting for an hour, the ambassador also arranged a telephonic conversation between Ms Siddiqui and her mother. This [...]
ISLAMABAD: Dr. Fauzia Siddiqui met twice with Richard Holbrooke, the US Special Representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan here on Tuesday.
Later, Dr. Siddiqui told Geo news that Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani had arranged her meeting with Holbrooke at the PM Secretariat where she could not discuss the issue in details.
Dr. Fauzia Siddiqui, the sister of Dr Afia Siddiqui detained in US, called on Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani and visiting US envoy Richard Holbrooke separately on Tuesday.
Fauzia met PM Gilani at Prime Minister House and appealed for the early release of her sister detained in America on the charges of assault on FBI [...]
