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What about Dr Aafia?
What a shame that Dr Aafia Siddiqui is languishing in American jail due mainly to the indifferent attitude of the Pakistan government and its Ambassador in Washington. She is serving 86-year jail term on a flimsy and concocted charge that she tried to kill a US marine while in Kabul. It appears that there is no renewed effort to secure her release.
Dr Aafia’s sister, Fauzia Siddiqui, has accused the government of making massive funds available to some of its favourite on the pretext of pursuing her case but they were instead enjoying themselves with that money. Fauzia very rightly said that the golden opportunity for her sister’s release was when the decision to let Raymond Davis, who was guilty of killing two Pakistani citizens in broad daylight, go scot-free was taken.
There is hardly any doubt that it is the responsibility of the federal government to make an all-out effort to secure release of any Pakistani national being persecuted in a fake and highly ill-motivated case. Political and religious parties, NGOs and civil society as a whole have been demanding Dr Aafia’ Siddiqui’s immediate release.
What Do Pakistanis See When They Look In The Mirror These Days?
by: Mauri Saalakhan
I begin with a question: How can Pakistanis look at themselves in the mirror and not feel absolute contempt for the tribal image they see glaring back at them?
As soon as I heard about the deal struck for the release of the CIA connected murderer, Raymond Davis, I made an inquiry into the terms of the agreement. Was Aafia Siddiqui’s release part of the deal? The answer in one word: “No.”
How disgustingly shameful this is! A foreign mercenary working under diplomatic cover can reportedly shoot two Pakistani citizens in the back (killing both in the process), and a court of law can find this murderer “Not guilty” – using the aggrieved families’ acceptance of ”blood money” under coercive circumstances, and in Buy cipro online violation of the applicable terms of Islamic law, as a feeble justification.
What happened to Binyam
The case of the British resident Binyam Mohamed Buy Erectile Dysfunction medications might interest those who are following the story of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui. The US Justice Department dropped the key allegations against Binyam, according to Washington Buy doxycycline online canadian pharmacy levitra Post, October 15. However:
one of the confessions that was tortured out of Binyam is so ludicrous that it was soon dropped, but not before Clive Stafford Smith had learnt of it and had been able to use it to demonstrate the extent brand viagra to which it indicated that all of Binyam’s “confessions” were untrustworthy online pharmacy [From blog entry at One Heart for Peace]
According to this “confession”, Binyam admitted having dinner with al Qaeda personnel in Karachi when, as it turned out later, two of the said personnel were already in US custody on the said date!
