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Pak Govt. should send delegation to US to get Aafia freed: Imran Khan

Lahore : Former Pakistani captain Imran Khan has called on the Pakistan Government to send an official delegation to the US to negotiate the release of terrorism-accused Pakistani neurologist, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui.
Addressing a press conference, Khan also urged the PML-N to play the role of a [...]

[ More ] March 1st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in News |

Pakistan calls on US to repatriate Aafia Siddiqui

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 [...]

[ More ] February 19th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in News |

PM urges US to repatriate Aafia

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 [...]

[ More ] February 17th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in News |

Dr Aafia’s sister to stage sit-in protest at US Consulate on 16th

LAHORE: Dr Fauzia Siddiqui, sister of Dr Aafia Siddiqui, will lead a students’ rally and stage a sit-in protest in front of the US Consulate on February 16 (Tuesday), as part of her countrywide campaign for her sister’s release.
A Pakistani neuroscientist and mother of three children, Aafia was convicted by the [...]

[ More ] February 12th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Events |

Aafia Siddiqi supporters hold anti-US rally in Islamabad

An anti-US rally was held in Islamabad on Monday protesting the US Federal Court verdict convicting Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui.
On February 8, a 12-member New York jury convicted Siddiqui, a mother of three and a graduate of the prestigious American university, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, of attempted murder. She had [...]

[ More ] February 9th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in News |

Taliban to execute US soldier if Aafia not released

PESHAWAR: The Afghan Taliban on Thursday demanded the release of Dr Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani scientist who has been convicted by the US court on charges of her alleged attempt to murder US soldiers in Afghanistan, and threatened to execute an American soldier they were holding currently. They claimed Aafia Siddiqui’s family had approached the [...]

[ More ] February 5th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in News |

LHCBA condemns US court verdict against Dr Aafia

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) general house on Thursday condemned the US jury verdict against Dr Aafia Siddiqui, terming it a brutal act by the country that claims to champion human rights. The bar also criticised the government of Pakistan for failing to protect its “innocent citizen”.
LHCBA adopted a resolution demanding Dr [...]

[ More ] February 5th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in News |

VIDEO : US court rules Pakistani woman guilty of attempted murder

US court rules Pakistani woman guilty of attempted murder

A Pakistani female neuroscientist has been convicted of trying to kill US soldiers and FBI agents while she was being detained at a police station in Afghanistan.
Prosecutors accuse Aafia Siddiqui of firing at her interrogators but her lawyers say there was no forensic evidence that the shooting [...]

[ More ] February 4th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Videos |

Pakistani found guilty of US attack

A US-educated Pakistani woman who was arrested in Afghanistan and accused of shooting at her US interrogators, has been found guilty of attempted murder by a court in the US.
Aafia Siddiqui was found guilty by a New York court on Wednesday after a 12-member jury reached a unanimous verdict, but said the crime was not [...]

[ More ] February 4th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in News |

US jury finds Dr Aafia guilty on all counts

NEW YORK: A US jury on Wednesday found Pakistani neuroscientist Dr Aafia Siddiqui guilty of two counts of attempted murder, though the crime was not found by the jury to be premeditated. She was also convicted of armed assault, using and carrying a firearm and assault of US officers and employees. A 12-member jury deliberated [...]

[ More ] February 4th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in News |