Christian supporters of a Pakistani socio-political group 'Pasban', hold a rally demanding the release of Aafia Siddiqui, Sunday, May 30, 2010, in Karachi, Pakistan.

* Senate committee chairman says whole nation wants early release of scientist

By Tahir Niaz

ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Interior on Tuesday asked the Foreign Office (FO) to summon US Ambassador to Pakistan Anne W Patterson to the FO, for discussing the possible release of Dr Aafia Siddiqui, who is currently in US custody.

The Committee Chairman Senator Talha Mahmood asked the FO to tell Patterson that the Pakistani nation was concerned about Dr Aafia and wanted her early release. Earlier, FO officials told the committee that Dr Aafia could face punishment from a 30-year jail term to life imprisonment. The Committee chairman said that there were at least nine cases in US history where the US president had pardoned court punishment. He asked the FO to collect information on the developments made by the Pakistani embassy in the US in Dr Aafia’s case so far, before the committee itself would summon Patterson to the committee meeting.

Mahmood asked the FO to submit a comprehensive report on Dr Aafia’s case within 15 days.

The committee was of the view that it was the prime responsibility of the government to protect its citizens residing abroad and Dr Aafia Siddiqui had committed no crime and the case against her was baseless which must be withdrawn.

The FO assured members of the committee that all out efforts would be made for the safe repatriation of Dr Aafia.

Washington—The United States has made contacts to NGOs on Human Rights aimed to stop strong reaction in Pakistan on the result of expected sentence to Dr. Aafia Siddiqui.

According to sources, the US Officials, through their allies Britain, not only contacted to two important Pakistan’s NGOs on Human Rights but met with heads of these two NGOs in Karachi and Lahore.

Sources further said that the Intelligence Agencies have sent a report to high Pakistani officials in this regard which stated that Britain Chief Inspector Police given a detail briefing to head of an NGO at his office and tried to prove that Dr. Aafia Siddiqui was working against the interests of the United States and allegations against her have been proved.

According to the report, hatred against US and Western would be increased in Pakistan on every level at the result of sentence to Dr. Aafia Siddiqui.

The responsible officials of US and Britain have also assured that children of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui would be handed over to her families. Sources said that the US and Britain would provide financial assistance to these two NGOs secretly and documents have been signed in this regard.

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Excerpt from: OpEd News

Sacred Sisters Of Victory
By Mark Sashine

This year May 9 is the 65th anniversary of the Victory over Germany in 1945. It is also a Mother's Day. The US is very proud with its record of women emancipation. This century is proclaimed to be the Century of Women. Empowerment is the word....

Germans did not consider Russians as  proper POWs; women- prisoners were not protected by any convention or agreement. German soldiers saved and distributed memorable photos with women hanged at the background, with naked women routed up, with Russian girls on their knees, with women- Communists or Jews digging their own graves; you want more of that? Hey, feminists, how are you going to treat a woman- Communist who was repeatedly raped by the Germans- as a saint or it was all her fault? Don't bother; Martha Corey said that there were no witches in 1692, she certainly was no Communist- but I had never heard her name mentioned by your people even once. Our US feminism prefers queens and duchesses. Rose Luxemburg, a prominent German Communist, beaten to death in 1918 by a group of German officers is not their heroine, of course. Just imagine a group of men beating a woman to death. What a feat, really for the glorious German military. But it was in 1918. In the Y2010 doctor Aafia Siddiqui was literally torn to pieces by the US so- called court system, convicted under false premise and do we hear anything from Oprah? Or from Tina Fey? Or from Madame Huffington? Oh yes, they are busy celebrating the anniversary of Madeleine Allbright becoming a Secretary of State.  How about Cindy Sheehan? When Glenn Beck called a woman who lost her son  in the criminal war a "tragedy pimp", did any of our female celebs spit in his eye? Did any of them use their considerable wealth to make him cringe as the coward he is? Nope, total silence it was. Empowerment really is strange in this country. It is highly selective....

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PRESS CONFERENCE at the NATIONAL PRESS CLUB, Washington, DC. - April 29, 2010

The press conference was organized by The Peace Thru Justice Foundation in support of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, and other wrongfully imprisoned Muslims in America, and to draw attention to a very important "Preemptive Prosecution Resolution" recently passed by the Common Council of Albany, New York.

Excerpt taken from: VETERANS TODAY

By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor

... What is it like being married to a torturer and war criminal?  Are these harsh terms?  Whenever I hear from a member of Dr. Aafia’s family, I think of Laura Bush.

Dr. Aafia is Pakistani national, PhD from MIT in microbiology, a scientist of some real esteem who, at the “secret orders” of George W. Bush, was kidnapped with her small children, bought from a criminal gang in Pakistan to spend years of torture in an illegal prison.  After 5 years of rape and torture, Aafia is put on trial, not for any crime, but for trying to murder those who were torturing and raping her, 7 of them.  Do you think Laura woke up every morning feeling guilt because of rape and torture ordered by her husband, written off by the two of them as though it were all a college prank.

Laura Bush was silent on this and the fate of over a million Iraqis killed by her husband.  I wonder if she ever asked him where he spent his time in the military during the Vietnam War?  Records show Bush failing a drug test and simply disappearing.  Those records will never be released but the math is simple, not AWOL, but deserter.  “Daddy, what did you do during the war?”

Aafia, the 100 pound, wheelchair bound hellion who had to be shot twice in the abdomen by her “translator” to keep her from murdering her “interrogators”….

Now wait a second.  They speak English in Pakistan.  Aafia lived in the US for years and has a doctorate from MIT.  I would bet any amount that she speaks English much better than George W. Bush, in fact so much better it isn’t funny.  In fact, this isn’t speculation, but a fact.  How many innocent Muslims were kidnapped and thrown into the Gulag when President Bush sent out a “casting call” for dupes to be thrown into the CIA gulag, nobody in particular, just “numbers” so Ashcroft and Gonzales could claim “terrorist suspect” arrests....

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