July 16, 2010

SAMAA TV

ISLAMABAD: President of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), Qazi Anwar, has said that he is receiving threats from the government.
“A message has been delivered to my nephew in the United States that I am on the hit list of the government,” he told newsmen at a press conference along with Dr. Fauzia Siddiqi Friday.
He said he would definitely attend the lawyer’s convention in Gujrat on Saturday if he survived.

The SCBA President said the he would announce a schedule to hold protests against Dr Aafia’s detention in US. The lawyers, he said, would start a nation-wide protest movement if the government did not take concrete measures to secure Aafia’s release.

July 05, 2010

REGIONAL TIMES

Karachi: Dr Aafia Siddiqui case is the biggest human and women rights issue of our times, and there is dire need for targeted steps to raise this pressing matter not only in Pakistan but also abroad, so as to awaken the world conscience on the plight of this innocent mother.
This was said by speakers at a meeting of ‘Release Aafia Committee’ here on Sunday. It was noted that on August 16, 2010, the American court would announce its verdict against Dr Aafia and it is likely that this innocent lady might be handed life imprisonment, though charges against her are fake, flimsy and ridiculous. Sadly, the case of Dr Aafia is not highlighted in the true human and women rights perspectives, and the world conscience is not fully shaken on this sensitive humanitarian matter.
It was felt that Pakistani rulers have not formally taken up the matter of Dr Aafia and her children with their US counterparts and there is no formal request from our government for repatriation of Dr Aafia Siddiqui. The main reason behind this is if Dr Aafia’s case is brought to the limelight it would also pave way for the release and return of thousands of innocent Pakistanis who were illegally ‘sold’ by the former dictatorial regime to the US.

July 09, 2010
The NATION

ISLAMABAD – Terming the shifting of Dr Aafia Siddiqui from Afghanistan to the USA negation of the international laws, Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that Islamabad would use political ways to bring Aafia back to the country.

Talking to media representatives here on Thursday after attending meeting held in connection with the Pak-USA Strategic Dialogue, Malik said that during the meeting Pakistan’s delegation informed the US delegation that Dr Aafia’s shifting from Afghanistan to America was a violation of the international laws.

He said that Pakistan had decided to fight politically for Aafia’s repatriation.
“The matter of Dr Aafia was discussed and we have decided to use every possible channel to bring her back”, he added. He said that Pakistan wanted close relations with the USA in war against terrorism for the sake of regional security and peace.

May 26, 2010

Pakistani lawmakers urge the government to summon the US Ambassador to Pakistan over "the inhuman detention" of Pakistani national Aafia Siddiqui in US prison.

During a meeting of the Senate's Standing Committee of the Pakistani parliament, lawmakers from both the government and opposition voiced their concern over the trial of Aafia Siddiqui by calling it violation of human rights, a Press TV correspondent reported late on Tuesday.

The committee asked the government to present its progress report to the Senate Body within 15 days.

May 15, 2010

LAHORE

Lord Nazir Ahmed of United Kingdom has said that there is no evidence available, which proves that Dr Aafia is involved in the shooting of American soldiers.

Delivering a lecture about his success story in business and politics in United Kingdom at the Punjab University (PU) Institute of Business Administration in New Campus here on Friday, he said Pakistanis should launch a united movement until Dr Aafia and all the Pakistanis kept as prisoners at Guantanamo Bay were honourably released as well as suitable compensation was paid and the Americans say sorry to Pakistan and the rest of the world.

PU Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran, Director IBA Prof Dr Muhammad Ehsan Malik, faculty members and many students of the institute were also present.

Lord Nazir said although a US court had sentenced Dr Aafia, but morally and politically they have not been able to sentence her. He said the Western countries were suffering from Islamophobia and pointing fingers at Muslims and Pakistan by criticising Muslim. He said the Western leaders sometimes resorted to anti-Muslim feelings such as banning veil amongst Muslim women because this was one thing, which could unite their whole society. He said there was no doubt that a wave of new prejudice and hate had been unleashed against Islam in the Western societies, but it was direly required that we should set our own house in order so as to counter anti-Islam and Pakistan feelings.

May 17, 2010

KARACHI : Protest rallies in more than 50 cities and towns of the country including Karachi on Sunday demanded immediate release and repatriation of Pakistani woman scientist, Dr Aafia Siddiqui, terming her detention in the US illegal, immoral and a big question mark on human rights.

The rallies were organized on the call of Pasban in Karachi, Lahore, Quetta, Peshawar, Rawalpinidi, Multan, Sarghoda, Faisalabad, Bahawalpur, Sukkur, Nawabshah, Kotri and other cities and towns.

In Karachi a protest rally was arranged in front of Karachi Press Club, where the protesters termed Dr Aafia a living symbol of human rights in whole world. They said illegal kidnapping of Dr Aafia along with her minor children, inhuman torture on her in US torture camps in Afghanistan and her present illegal detention in the US and disappearance of her son Salman are big question marks over the charters and manifestos of human rights organizations of the world.

They demanded of the Pakistani government to take solid and sincere efforts for an early release and repatriation of Dr Aafia, whom they termed the daughter of Pakistan.

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