Dr Aafia Siddiqui – The Prisoner 650

ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Interior on Saturday asked the Law Ministry to give its opinion on the possibilities of taking the case of Dr Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani scientist detained in the US, to the International Court of Justice.
Earlier, Dr Aafia’s elder sister, Dr Fauzia Siddiqui, informed the committee that the government had [...]

ISLAMABAD: The case of a Pakistani neuroscientist, Aafia Siddiqui, can be taken to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) under the Pak-US Treaty of Friendship and Commerce signed in 1959, as the government has failed to secure her repatriation diplomatically, says her counsel Barrister Iqbal Jafree.
Barrister Jafree said that a deputy attorney general stated in [...]