Aafia Siddiqui

Noted American Sufi scholar Cyrus McGoldrick has appealed for doling out justice to Pakistani woman scientist and educationalist Dr Aafia Siddiqui. ... the forth two-day International Sufi conference started his visit to Karachi by calling on the family of Dr Aafia Siddiqui in Karachi at their residence on Friday.

She said that she would put this question before our political, religious, defense, media, and social, judicial and civil society circles that whether the killer, Col Joseph, would be freed like Raymond Davis without seeking repatriation of Dr Aafia Siddiqui. She said those who talk about diplomatic impunity ...

Aafia Siddiqui – a Pakistani neuroscientist, mother of three sons, who was punished first, tried later. Read how her trial and conviction was finished fast to sentence her sooner the better. All other independent investigations reveal a story conclusively different from the one the one America scripted against ...

KARACHI - Past three governments did nothing for Dr Aafia Siddiqui and now the masses should use their vote very carefully during the fourth time, said Aafia Movement Pakistan leader Dr Fowzia Siddiqui here on Sunday. She was speaking to a reception for the participants of a march on foot that reached ...

The activists of Pasban staged a protest at Chowk Kumharanwala on Friday to press the government to bring Dr Aafia Siddiqui back from American prison. Holding placards and banners, the protesters shouted slogans against government and USA. Speaking on this occasion, Pasban leaders Sheikh ...

The same circles that hurl condemnations at Malala support Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, an Al Qaeda agent doing 86 years in an American prison, whose release has also been demanded by the Islamic State terrorist organization. A girl from picturesque Swat Valley—once visited by the Chinese traveler Hsuan ...

At least one other woman (Aafia Siddiqui) was rendered. But there may have been more: Threats were made about detainees' children. The Senate Torture Report won't have captured these cases because its terms explicitly excluded detainees who were rendered to third countries. (This is why you didn't ...

Members of the Aafia Foundation held two vigils in Washington, DC on International Women's Day, March 8, urging repatriation of Pakistani national Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, who is currently being held in solitary confinement in Carswell Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas. Siddiqui's supporters gathered in front of the ...

She asked what we, as a nation, have done in the case of the Pakistani daughter, Dr Aafia Siddiqui, who was kidnapped and trafficked from our own country along with her three minor children. She said today if we have no respect on international level, it is not without a valid reason. She said those crying ...

Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, convicted in 2010 on seven counts of assault and attempted murder [and jailed in the U.S. for links with Al-Qaeda], was after all a neuroscientist educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "The problem is only now receiving more and more attention around the world, with ...

She appealed to the Pakistanis to break their silence and strongly demand of the government to raise the issue of Aafia Siddiqui with the US administration to seek her early and honourable repatriation. Dr Fowzia said that March 2 is also a festival day in Texas, USA, but the Pakistani embassy in the US is not sending ...

Dr Aafia Siddiqui, convicted in 2010 on seven counts of assault and attempted murder, was after all a neuroscientist educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The problem is only now receiving more and more attention around the world, with Princeton University and other centres of academic ...

After returning to the U.S., Abdirahman Sheik Mohamud planned to fly to Texas and attack the Federal Medical Center Carswell in Fort Worth in an attempt to free Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani scientist convicted of shooting at two U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, Judge Michael Watson said as he outlined the ...

She prayed that may the New Year bring with it the release of Dr Aafia Siddiqui and other missing and illegally detained persons. She also prayed that Pakistan may get brave and daring leaders who could restore the glory and pride of this nation. Dr Fowzia said the end of year 2017 would add yet another ...

KARACHI : Aafia Movement leader and noted neurophysician of the country, Dr Fowzia Siddiqui has regretted that Pakistani mother Dr Aafia Siddiqui has been deprived of telephonic talk to her family for two and half years. In a statement on Wednesday, she said that the family wants to meet Aafia as it had even no brief ...

KARACHI - Aafia Movement leader Dr Fowzia Siddiqui has regretted that Pakistani mother Dr Aafia Siddiqui has been deprived even of a telephonic talk with her family for two and half years. In a statement issued here on Wednesday, she said that the family wanted to meet Aafia as it had even no brief ...

KARACHI - Dr Aafia Siddiqui would complete the first seven years of her cruel 86-year jail term on September 23 and she already has completed 14 years of her illegal detention, but still justice is not being doled out to this oppressed woman, said Aafia Movement Pakistan leader Dr Fowzia Siddiqui on ...

KARACHI: Family of Dr Aafia Siddiqui, who has been languishing in a US prison, has said that since last two years they have not talked to her on telephone because this facility is presumably withdrawn from her. In a press release issued here on Saturday, Aafia Movement Pakistan leader and noted ...

KARACHI: Legal experts said on Saturday that Dr Aafia Siddiqui was the most wronged woman on the planet today. The remarks were made by legal experts at a press conference at the Karachi Press Club (KPC). The case of Aafia Siddiqui and her children in the final count is simply a human trafficking ...

Local media claimed that Pakistani authorities made an offer to US President Barack Obama that they would free Dr. Shakil Afridi in exchange for the release of Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui, who was found guilty in 2010 by a New York court of trying to kill US servicemen in Afghanistan. "A leading ...

Born in Karachi, Pakistan, Aafia Siddiqui moved to the United States for school in 1990 and left for Pakistan in 2003, after attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and marrying a Pakistani man in Boston. Shortly after returning to Pakistan, Siddiqui disappeared while en route to Islamabad ...

When I was CIA station chief in Pakistan, we were concerned about this greatly. Pakistan's made some reasonable efforts to make sure their scientific community remained loyal. But you see people like Aafia Siddiqui who is a brilliant scientist go over to the dark side, and it wont take but a few more of those ...