by VIVIAN SALAMA, ISLAMABAD, Pakistan
Mohammed Saad Iqbal never imagined that his 26th birthday would be the first of many spent behind the concrete walls and barbed-wire fences of Guantanamo Bay.
(Matthew Tabaccos)
Mohammed Saad Iqbal never imagined that his 26th birthday would be the first of many spent behind the concrete walls and barbed-wire fences of Guantanamo [...]
Over the weekend, yet another hapless prisoner stuck at Guantanamo Bay for the last six years was determined to have been wrongly detained, this time by a military panel that decided he “should no longer be deemed an enemy combatant.”
The panel’s decision was not publicly announced, but was reported Sunday by William Glaberson in The [...]
KARACHI, Jan.15, (APP): The hearing of a constitution petition filed by an NGO Human Rights Network seeking safe return of Dr Afia Siddiqui was adjourned here on Thursday by a division bench of High Court of Sindh (SHC) comprising Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali and Justice Faisal Arab.
When the matter was [...]
In ‘Global assault on local peace’ (December 3), I suggested that three basic tactics which become clear from the case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui are dirty media, inquisition trials and ‘Zeroland’.
Dirty media is “the tool with which an individual or nation could be declared guilty without trial,” as I suggested. We can see this pattern [...]
Islamabad(ANI): Pakistani “terror suspect” Dr Aafia Siddiqui, who is on trial in the United States, has alleged that one of the interrogators at the Bagram Air Force base in Afghanistan was an Indian.
According to a report prepared by the by Pakistan Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Dr Aafia has narrated her entire story to [...]
Islamabad—A human rights body of the senate has urged the government to engage more intensely at the highest level with America to secure the repatriation of Dr Aafia Siddiqui.
A Joint Meeting of the Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was held at the Parliament House [...]
ISLAMABAD: Chairman Senate’s Standing Committee for Defence Nisar Memon has urged to summon US ambassador in the session and present a charge sheet against USA for an making objectionable video of Dr Aafia in New York jail.
The joint meeting of the Standing Committees for Human Rights and Foreign Affairs held in Parliament House under the [...]
KARACHI: A division bench of the Sindh High Court (SHC), comprising Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali and Justice Faisal Arab, expressed extreme displeasure over the government’s failure to submit comments or show any development in Dr Aafia Siddiqui’s repatriation case.
The bench was hearing a constitutional petition filed by the Human Rights Network, seeking the safe [...]
* Pakistani scientist detained in US told Senate body she was arrested from Pakistan and later shifted to Bagram
By Muhammad Bilal
ISLAMABAD: Dr Aafia Siddiqi — a Pakistani national on trial in the United States – has alleged that one of the interrogators at the Bagram airbase was an Indian, according to a report [...]
KARACHI – Sindh High Court (SHC) on Thursday issued directives to the authorities concerned to submit arguments for handing over Dr Aafia to American agencies.
The division bench comprising Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali and Justice Faisal Arab said, despite passage of 41 days since the filing of the petition, no comment has been filed from [...]
