Islamabad has appealed to Washington to repatriate the female Pakistani scientist convicted in a US court of attempting to murder US military interrogators and FBI agents.
Dr. Aafia Siddiqui was recently found guilty by a US jury of charges that she has vehemently denied to have committed. The main charge against her [...]
ISLAMABAD – After directions of President Asif Ali Zardari and growing criticism of the masses, the Foreign Office is said to have evolved a new strategy to pursue Dr. Aafia’s case again, it is learnt reliably.
As part of the new strategy, the authorities have decided to hire another law firm to [...]
ISLAMABAD : Expressing dismay over the unexpected verdict in Dr Aafia Siddiqui case in the US, Pakistan has said that it would determine its future course of action by consulting her family members and lawyers. At a weekly media briefing, Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit said.
“We are dismayed over the unexpected verdict in Dr Aafia [...]
* Foreign Office expresses dismay over ‘unexpected verdict’ in detained neuroscientist’s case
* Says ultimate objective is repatriation of Dr Aafia
Staff Report
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will take all steps to secure the release and return home of Dr Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist who stands convicted by a US court for shooting at her US interrogators [...]
By AHMED QURAISHI
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—If Americans and the Brits show little respect for Pakistani citizens today, it is because Pakistani rulers refuse to take a stand on national pride. Pakistanis have been rotting in Indian and Afghan jails, but Pakistan’s incumbent president honors Karzai by inviting him for his inauguration party. Indians send dead bodies of [...]
After the guilty verdict against Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani woman charged with attempted murder in the U.S, was announced, Elaine Whitfield Sharp, her attorney, told reporters outside the Federal Court House in New York Wednesday that government of Pakistan had put a gag order on Dr. Siddiqui’s family as a pre-condition to release her son, [...]
In the United States, she’s been dubbed “the most dangerous woman in the world.” In Pakistan, she is seen as a victim of American injustice in the fight against al-Qaeda. And at the opening of her trial in New York, the judge found her too disruptive and had her removed from the courtroom.
“I was never [...]
Islamabad: Pakistan appealed on Tuesday to the United States to release detained neurologist Dr. Afia Siddiqui on humanitarian basis and abrogate cases against her.
Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmoud Qureshi said, in his written statement during the Senate session, that the government has appealed the US to release Siddiqui on humanitarian basis and to abrogate cases [...]
LAHORE: Pakistan cannot move the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for Dr Aafia release without prior permission from US authorities, Deputy Attorney General Naveed Inayat Malik told the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday.
Under a treaty with US, Malik said, the government could not approach the ICJ on its own for the release of Dr [...]
NEW YORK: The Pakistan government is doing all it can at the diplomatic and legal fronts to win freedom for Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, the neuroscientist whose trial on murder charges takes place next week, Pakistani Ambassador to the United States Hussain Haqqani said Friday. Introducing to the U.S.-based Pakistani correspondents the three-member “A-class” legal defence [...]
