ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari requested the US government on Thursday to repatriate Dr Aafia Siddiqui to Pakistan.
During his meeting with US Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, President Zardari requested that Aafia Siddiqui, currently convicted for attacking US soldiers, be repatriated to Pakistan under the Prisoner Exchange Agreement [...]
ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Tuesday demanded early repatriation of Dr Aafia Siddiqui from the US to Pakistan.
The PM while talking to Chairman of US Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee Senator John Kerry and Richard Armitage conveyed sentiments of the 170 million countrymen to the US officials regarding [...]
LAHORE: Chief of Pakistan Muslim League-N Nawaz Sharif has urged the government to step up diplomatic efforts for the release of Dr. Aafia.
Nawaz Sharif demanded this during a meeting with Dr. Aafia’s sister Dr.Fouzia who met him at his residence in Raiwind.
Dr. Fouzia has thanked PML-N for its principle stand [...]
Lahore: Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan has urged the government to seriously pursue the case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, who was recently indicted by a US court on terrorism charges, and take concrete step to ensure her safe return to the country.
Speaking during a seminar here, Khan criticised the Gilani government for not [...]
ISLAMABAD: Lord Nazir Ahmed, member House of Lords, has called upon the Pakistani government to take up Dr Aafia Siddiqui’s issue with the United States for her return to Pakistan.
Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, he said it was the state’s responsibility to bring back Dr Siddiqui and other missing persons from foreign countries [...]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Ambassador to the US Hussain Haqqani on Sunday said he is trying his best to secure the release of five Pakistanis from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba, as well as Dr Aafia Siddique. “Pakistan is in serious talks with US officials for early release of Dr Aafia Siddiqui besides five other [...]
WASHINGTON: Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States Husain Haqqani met with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and conveyed to him the Pakistani demand for earliest repatriation of Dr Aafia Siddiqui to her homeland.
Ms Siddiqui, a U.S.?educated neurological scientist is in American custody, facing charges of an alleged attempt to shoot at U.S. officials in [...]
Abdul Raheem son of Ghulam Rabbani is one of the eight Gauntanamo detainees so far left in Gauntanamo, belonging to Pakistan. He was a business man in Karachi when he and his brother both were picked up on 9/11 2002 and handed over to the U.S since then they are languishing in the Cuban island [...]
ISLAMABAD: The Senate on Thursday renewed its demand from the United States to repatriate Dr Aafia Siddiqui to Pakistan.
The issue surfaced when two separate reports of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Functional Committee on Human Rights compiled after some senators met Aafia – who is currently detained in a New York jail [...]
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 [...]
