Aafia's mom pleads for Musharraf

[Cyberian]

she had been labelled as a 'small fry' by USA and was searching for her( before that her ex husband was picked up) was not a handler not a courier

Out of millions of people in Karachi why was she targetted specifically and labelled as a 'small fry'?

 

[Pboy]

Diplomacy can deliver a workable solution in very difficult circumstances, even in this case, but only if both sides engage themselves in finding it.

True, though sadly,

Our leaders have rarely even tried.

Nothing happens unless you try and go for it.

 

[Argus Panoptes]

lawl, so you are just arguing for sake of argument that musharraf spoke lie that he handed her to US, whereas you accept she met justice and was guilty, and you arnt really sure that she was kidnapped or she escaped to afghanistan to do some dirty work?

I am not arguing anything, but only presenting facts. Gen Musharraf lied when he denied that his own people kidnapped a Pakistani citizen and her children from Pakistani soil and gave her to USA for justice, when in fact the correct thing to do would be to try her in Pakistan.

 

[darkinsky]

I am not arguing anything, but only presenting facts. Gen Musharraf lied when he denied that his own people kidnapped a Pakistani citizen and her children from Pakistani soil and gave her to USA for justice, when in fact the correct thing to do would be to try her in Pakistan.

you only proved that she is not american how the hell you came to conclusion musharraf handed her over to US, you are getting confused dude

if she did crimes in afghanistan against US nationals and was arrested not by pakistanis by by americans, then pakistan can only ask america to repatriate her to pakistan, but its totally out of pakistan hands, because US doesnt hand over things easily

 

[Argus Panoptes]

you only proved that she is not american how the hell you came to conclusion musharraf handed her over to US, you are getting confused dude

if she did crimes in afghanistan against US nationals and was arrested not by pakistanis by by americans, then pakistan can only ask america to repatriate her to pakistan, but its totally out of pakistan hands, because US doesnt hand over things easily

Aafia Siddiqui - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/QUOTE]

Disappearance

In early 2003, while Siddiqui was working at Aga Khan University in Karachi, she emailed a former professor at Brandeis and expressed interest in working in the U.S., citing lack of options in Karachi for women of her academic background.[3][19]

According to the media, Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, alleged al-Qaeda chief planner of the September 11 attacks, was interrogated by the CIA after his arrest on March 1, 2003.[62] Mohammed was tortured by waterboarding 183 times,[23][63] and his resultant confessions triggered a series of related arrests shortly thereafter.[11] The press reported Mohammed naming Siddiqui as an al-Qaeda operative;[62] On March 25, 2003, the FBI issued a global "wanted for questioning" alert for Siddiqui and her ex-husband, Amjad Khan.[11] Siddiqui was accused of being a "courier of blood diamonds and a financial fixer for al-Qaida".[64] Khan was questioned by the FBI, and released.[19]

Afraid the FBI would find her in Karachi, a few days later she left her parents' house along with her three children[65] on March 30.[28] She took a taxi to the airport, ostensibly to catch a morning flight to Islamabad to visit her uncle, but disappeared.[3][19]

Siddiqui's and her children's whereabouts and activities from March 2003 to July 2008 are a matter of dispute.

On April 1, 2003, local newspapers reported, and Pakistan interior ministry confirmed, that a woman had been taken into custody on terrorism charges.[28] The Boston Globe described "sketchy" Pakistani news reports saying Pakistani authorities had detained Siddiqui, and had questioned her with FBI agents.[45][62] However, a couple of days later, both the Pakistan government and the FBI publicly denied having anything to do with her disappearance.[28] On April 22, 2003, two U.S. federal law enforcement officials anonymously said Siddiqui had been taken into custody by Pakistani authorities. Pakistani officials never confirmed the arrest, however, and later that day the U.S. officials amended their earlier statements, saying new information made it "doubtful" she was in custody.[66] Her sister Fauzia claimed Interior Minister Syed Faisal Saleh Hayat said that her sister had been released and would be returning home "shortly".[28]

In 2003–04, the FBI and the Pakistani government said they did not know where Siddiqui was.[19][67][68] U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft called her the most wanted woman in the world, an al-Qaeda "facilitator" who posed a "clear and present danger to the U.S." On May 26, 2004, the U.S. listed her among the seven "most wanted" al-Qaeda fugitives.[62][69] One day before the announcement, The New York Times cited the Department of Homeland Security saying there were no current risks; American Democrats accused the Bush administration of attempting to divert attention from plummeting poll numbers and to push the failings of the Invasion of Iraq off the front pages.[70]

According to her ex-husband, after the global alert for her was issued Siddiqui went into hiding, and worked for al-Qaeda.[19][50][73] During her disappearance Khan said he saw her at Islamabad airport in April 2003, as she disembarked from a flight with their son, and said he helped Inter-Services Intelligence identify her. He said he again saw her two years later, in a Karachi traffic jam.[19][23]

Media reports Siddiqui having told the FBI that she worked at the Karachi Institute of Technology in 2005, was in Afghanistan in the winter of 2007; she stayed for a time during her disappearance in Quetta, Pakistan, and was sheltered by various people.[9][15][74] According to an intelligence official in the Afghan Ministry of the Interior, her son Ahmad, who was with her when she was arrested, said he and Siddiqui had worked in an office in Pakistan, collecting money for poor people.[15] He told Afghan investigators that on August 14, 2008, they had traveled by road from Quetta, Pakistan, to Afghanistan.[38] Amjad Khan, who unsuccessfully sought custody of his eldest son, Ahmad, said most of the claims of the family in the Pakistani media relating to her and their children were to garner public support and sympathy for her; he said they were one-sided and in mostly false.[38][50] An Afghan intelligence official said he believes that Siddiqui was working with Jaish-e-Mohammed (the "Army of Muhammad"), a Pakistani Islamic mujahedeen military group that fights in Kashmir and Afghanistan.[15]

Siddiqui's maternal uncle, Shams ul-Hassan Faruqi, said that on January 22, 2008, she visited him in Islamabad.[19][23] He said that she told him she had been held by Pakistani agencies, and asked for his help in order to cross into Afghanistan, where she thought she would be safe in the hands of the Taliban.[19][23] He had worked in Afghanistan, and made contact with the Taliban in 1999, but told her he was no longer in touch with them. He notified his sister, Siddiqui's mother, who came the next day to see her daughter. He said that Siddiqui stayed with them for two days.[75] Her uncle has signed an affidavit swearing to these facts.[38]

Ahmad and Siddiqui reappeared in 2008.[15] Afghan authorities handed the boy over to Pakistan in September 2008, and he now lives with his aunt in Karachi, who has prohibited him from talking to the press.[15][19] In April 2010, Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik said that a 12-year-old girl who was found outside a house in Karachi was identified by a DNA test as Siddiqui's daughter Mariyam, and that she had been returned to her family.[76]

 

[Mani2020]

Is it part of IK's manifesto? Or does he say it in public? about getting Aafia back?

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talked about her here and there but not as such ....but he seems to be the only leader with ghairat

 

[Slav Defence]

True, though sadly,

Our leaders have rarely even tried.

Nothing happens unless you try and go for it.

i wonder when she will be returned to pakistan

 

[Argus Panoptes]

i wonder when she will be returned to pakistan

It will take a long time before she, or her remains, are ever returned to Pakistan.

 

[Slav Defence]

It will take a long time before she, or her remains, are ever returned to Pakistan.

longtime??we already wasted a lot of time....instead of arguing now...our establishment must take serious actions to demand release of her and other innocent prisoners....argus...this issue is not only concerned with Afia but hundreds like her who are still suffering in guantanamo bay and other torture cellars in United States Of America

 

[Argus Panoptes]

longtime??we already wasted a lot of time....instead of arguing now...our establishment must take serious actions to demand release of her and other innocent prisoners....argus...this issue is not only concerned with Afia but hundreds like her who are still suffering in guantanamo bay and other torture cellars in United States Of America

How can our establishment demand the release when it itself had a role in handing her over? The pressure must come from the public.

 

[Slav Defence]

How can our establishment demand the release when it itself had a role in handing her over? The pressure must come from the public.

so you emphasize on this point that we need to change our leadership first?and until then we should let let americans torture our loved ones in their torture cellar like hell?

 

[Argus Panoptes]

so you emphasize on this point that we need to change our leadership first?and until then we should let let americans torture our loved ones in their torture cellar like hell?

It all beings with good leadership. Until then, we must all suffer our failures.

 

[Slav Defence]

It all beings with good leadership. Until then, we must all suffer our failures.

so we all rot until then??

 

[Argus Panoptes]

so we all rot until then??

I am afraid yes. Take a good look around all over the country and tell me what you see.

 

[Slav Defence]

I am afraid yes. Take a good look around all over the country and tell me what you see.

there is no ray of hope honestly speaking,but as Rasool Allah(S.A.W)said:"mayoosi kuffr hai..."
thats why...we should have strong faith on Allah...as there is always dawn after dusk!