British campaign pressures Pakistan to swap doctors jailed for ‘terror’ offences

[Rollno21]

I would dispute a lot of things the way things stand. The Americans have claimed a lot of things without providing solid evidence. In short, a story filled with a lot cheese holes.

If you are not convinced about Obl operation,then how can you claim doctor involved in treason.

He never lived next to any military academy. You people have a habit of twisting truth to suit your interests. It was in the same city but not next to it.

According to American reports itself, only 2 to 3 people knows where he was and he used to communicate through them, all those people are dead now. As for agencies, it was incompetence on their part as they never imagined hence paid no attention that some hvt must be living there.

Was the city in Pakistan .?
And by the way the compound was less than a mile away from the military academy

If you are not convinced about Obl operation,then how can you claim doctor involved in treason.


Was the city in Pakistan .?
And by the way the compound was less than a mile away from the military academy

@waz look at the negative rating by @HRK am I missing something

 

[Sugarcane]

Traps are being laid to Keep IK under pressure, and not let him venture into forbidden wild.

 

[Kompromat]

Not a chance in hell.

 

[Max]

Traps are being laid to Keep IK under pressure, and not let him venture into forbidden wild.

na rahe ga bans na baje gi bansri, #IYKWIM

 

[Sugarcane]

na rahe ga bans na baje gi bansri, #IYKWIM

Doctor should suffer fatal heart attack to end this bansari

 

[UnitedPak]

Aafia is an innocent civilian and being used to blackmail the nation into releasing a criminal and possible treasonist. Its dangerous precedent to accept anything other than an unconditional release of Aafia. For US, foreign civilians are very easy to capture, imprison and set up. You do not want to go down that route.

 

[kris]

The Americans can scream and shout all day long. Shakeel Afridi won't be released.

He broke Pakistani law and aided an enemy and rogue spy agency against Pakistan. Treason is a severe crime and the Americans can't do anything to get their guy released.

Lol
Wiki says he is arrested and jailed due to his connections with a terrorist organization which the same organization reduses the same

Courts have refuted the claim of treason

 

[Vanamali]

If the Pakistani state hands over a guy who is guilty for aiding a rogue foreign intelligence agency on a silver platter you might as well hand over everything else to the Americans.

There is absolutely zero logic to handing over Shakeel Afridi when he was caught red-handed in the act.

By handing this guy over to the Americans the Pakistanis will be undermining their own laws and security.

Pakistan's leadership has handed entire Pakistan and it's future to Americans, do you think this will not happen? Everything has price...

 

[El Sidd]

#BringHerHome

 

[cloud4000]

Aafia is an innocent civilian and being used to blackmail the nation into releasing a criminal and possible treasonist. Its dangerous precedent to accept anything other than an unconditional release of Aafia. For US, foreign civilians are very easy to capture, imprison and set up. You do not want to go down that route.

Aafia is not as innocent as she seems. She was called 'Lady Al-Qaeda' for a reason. Her behavior was, at best, bizarre. I found this article a good summary leading up to her conviction.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/nov/24/aafia-siddiqui-al-qaida

#BringHerHome

She's not coming home. Unless Pakistan is willing to make a trade for Shakil Afridi for Aafia Siddiqui, you might as well forget about her.

 

[Imran Khan]

what is UK problem here

 

[American Pakistani]

Was the city in Pakistan .?
And by the way the compound was less than a mile away from the military academy

Why does it matter? Sometimes things happen from where your mind doesn't reach. This is called "right under the nose" or in Urdu a phrase "chirag talay andhera".

 

[El Sidd]

She's not coming home. Unless Pakistan is willing to make a trade for Shakil Afridi for Aafia Siddiq

Shakil Afridi is a Pakistani citizen in a Pakistani prison.

Ms. Siddiqui is Pakistani citizen in American jail falsely accused under a dictorial Pakistan.

 

[cloud4000]

Shakil Afridi is a Pakistani citizen in a Pakistani prison.

Ms. Siddiqui is Pakistani citizen in American jail falsely accused under a dictorial Pakistan.

Read the article I posted. She's a shady character, at best. If Pakistan wants her back then make the deal, otherwise just forget about her.

 

[Umair Nawaz]

Lobby led by peer negotiates with Imran Khan and senior military to secure exchange of two prisoners

Sat 4 Aug 2018

Dr Shakil Afridi, left, who helped the US track down Osama bin Laden, and Dr Aafia Siddiqui who was allegedly tortured at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan. Photograph: AP
For two Pakistani doctors languishing in jails thousands of miles apart, there was more at stake than the promise made by Imran Khan to transform their nation as he declared victory after the general election.

During weeks of frenetic political campaigning, an influential group of British Pakistanis has been negotiating with Khan and senior military figures to arrange a prisoner swap involving Dr Shakil Afridi, who helped the CIA track the al-Qaida leader, Osama bin Laden, and Dr Aafia Siddiqui, convicted of attempting to kill two American military personnel.

While on the election trail, Khan, who heads the Tehreek-e-Insaf party which won the largest number of seats, and is due to be sworn in as prime minister on 11 August, announced that he would secure Siddiqui’s repatriation. The initiative to achieve this is being led by a British peer, Nazir Ahmed, who is to visit Pakistan soon for discussions with the powerful military leadership, which is likely to have the final say. Ahmed, who is closely connected to the Pakistani establishment, said: “The Americans are desperate for the release of Dr Afridi and to take him to their country, while the Pakistani public want Dr Siddiqui to come home. There have been some very positive developments in our discussions with the Pakistani military leadership. They are very receptive to the idea of striking a deal with the Americans and so is Pakistan’s political leadership. They actually came close to it a while ago but it fell through because of other factors. It’s just a question of timing, but I’m very confident that an exchange can be arranged.”

Siddiqui, 46, is being held at FMC Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas, a federal prison for those with mental health needs, after being sentenced to 86 years’ imprisonment in 2010. The Americans accused her of being an al-Qaida “facilitator” who was plotting attacks in New York. For five years before her arrest in 2008, they alleged that they did not know of her whereabouts, declaring her one of the world’s most-wanted terrorists.

Afridi, 56, was sentenced in 2013 to 33 years’ imprisonment for treason. He ran a bogus hepatitis B vaccination campaign for the CIA in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad, collecting DNA samples that allowed it to locate Bin Laden, but was charged with other terrorism-related offences. His sentence was later reduced to 23 years, which he is appealing against from prison in Rawalpindi, near Islamabad.

The incarcerations have damaged US-Pakistan relations, while generating anger within both nations. Siddiqui’s conviction brought protests across Pakistan. The Americans hailed Afridi as a hero.

Naseem Bajwa, a barrister who practises in London and Lahore, said: “The ball is in Pakistan’s court because the Americans at the very highest levels want Afridi. The legal mechanism exists for a prisoner swap so it’s just a case of nailing down the political and military backing for it in Pakistan, which is now there.”

Siddiqui’s family and supporters claim the case against her is fabricated and that she was kidnapped by Pakistani intelligence while driving through Karachi in 2003 with her three children. They allege she was handed over to the Americans and held in solitary confinement at the Bagram base in Afghanistan, which accounts for her “missing” five years, during which she was tortured, raped and suffered mental illness.

Siddiqui, a neuroscientist, who also holds American citizenship, is not appealing against her conviction, protesting that she will not get a fair hearing. US officials say Afridi’s imprisonment is a “priority issue”.

while thats never going to happen...Afridi maybe hanged if they tried something funny.
But Dr Afia siddiqui is a Pakistani born American citizen who has a dual nationality. Who was tortured, raped, beaten so much so that she is not mentally fine. But on the other hand Afridi has no such issues.
And not only that America wants Pakistan for military access and logistics for both land n air to Afghanistan.....So Pakistan if she wants can always twist the big but now toothless arms of America, but not the other way around. Pakistan doesnt depend on America any longer.
They dont fit in the merit and size as well as a value to exchange it with Afridi.

So forget abt Afridi, but America, for their own good the must budge!
There is no such thing as free lunch.