good effort , save her .
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an eye for eye an ear for ear...........will take revenge InshAllah
first get her out from US jail , then move on your second plan eye for an eye .
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well honestly she was sold by india mahjar harami...dont worry we will make us a graveyard sooner or later for you and israel.
india mohajir musharraf saved pakistan from being another afghanistan,
and for your program of making US , ISRAEL, INDIA grave yard is better to be given second thought .
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'Dr Aafia subjected to physical, sexual abuse in US detention center'
By Hasnaat Mailk
Published: June 20, 2018
Dr Aafia Siddiqui. PHOTO: REUTERS
ISLAMABAD: A confidential report prepared by Pakistan’s consul general in Houston, United States of America, of her visit to Dr Aafia Siddiqui claimed that she was subjected to physical and sexual abuse during her ongoing detention.
Consul General Aisha Farooqui visited Aafia at the Federal Medical Center in Carswell, Texas. The report recommends diplomatic authorities to take up the case at the highest levels to find a way for her repatriation so that she can serve her remaining sentence in Pakistan, where her modesty and privacy would not be interfered with.
Aafia’s sister Fowzia Siddiqui submitted the report of the consul general’s May 23 meeting with her.
The report presents details of the miserable state of Aafia, who is being detained, and details of her struggles to protect her dignity, integrity and respect paint a different picture altogether.
It is recommended that a detailed note be sent to the US Department of Justice for an inquiry into the allegations of physical and sexual abuse Aafia spoke of. CG Farooqui also suggested a formal request to be made to the US Department of Justice to restrict male staff members into her unit and to ensure her safety.
Aafia has accused the male staffer of urinating on her possessions.
“Explore a legal mechanism for her repatriation to Pakistan to complete her sentence in Pakistan, where at least she would be safe and would be able to meet her mother and children, who she has not met in almost eight years,” the report further recommends.
During her two-hour meeting, Farooqui stated, she saw Dr Aafia’s nervousness and phobias, and fear of everything and everyone at the facility. It was clear that she was afraid of the jail staff, their violations of her privacy, repeatedly confiscation of her things, the rampant threat of physical and sexual abuse and institutionalised rape and bisexuality that she claimed existed at the FMC Carswell.
“For a practising Muslim woman to be incarcerated in a facility where there was an existential threat of being raped and sexually abused repeatedly is an untenable situation and should not be allowed to continue. In spite of all this, I found Dr Aafia determined, hopeful and full of faith in Allah and Pakistani people that there will be help sent for their daughter specially and that sooner rather than later she would get out of the prison,” CG Farooqui wrote in the report.
Report further reveals that Aafia has no confidence in the New York-based lawyers engaged by her sister. She requested the consul general to tell her family to replace her legal team as soon as possible.
“In her opinion, only her previous attorney, Tina Foster, could be relied upon as she was sincere and was also Muslim. She was also the one who got her son Ahmed out of the secret prison in Afghanistan.”
Aafia also alleged that jail authorities confiscated her belongings. Her phone calls to family members were recorded and monitored. When asked why she did not call her mother in Karachi, Aafia said she didn’t feel comfortable talking to her in the presence of the jail staff.
Aafia also expressed mistrust that jail authorities dialed inaccurate phone numbers on purpose. She suspected that it wasn’t her mother or family on the other end of the line.
“She repeatedly told me she was constantly disturbed in her room and her privacy was consistently violated by jail staff who harassed her, threatened her and attempted to sexually abuse her as well on a number of occasions. Jail staff, including her case supervisor Annie Noblett, barged into her room, confiscated her belongings and made fun of her and even snatched her scarf off her head,” the report read.
“Her belongings were often missing she was of the view that there could be some drugs given to her which made her incoherent and not in her senses like on the three occasions when had visited her previously,” CG Farooqui wrote in the report.
Aafia also accused personal assistant to Pakistan’s former ambassador to the US Husain Haqqani, of siphoning off the $2 million allocated by the government of Pakistan for trial in 2010.
Aafia further described Haqqani as unhelpful and uninterested in her case. She stated that this was public money which had been taken by the two. She further categorically stated unlike the misconceptions about her association with banned organisations, Aafia had little to do with slain al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.
About her written submission to the judge for not filing an appeal against her sentence in 2011, Aafia said she did it because she was not expecting justice from the same judge in the appeal, while additionally claiming that her case was “lost in the US Supreme Court” due to the incompetence of her lawyers. She asserted that her trial was a sham.
When CG Farooqui asked Aafia if she would like her mother and sister to visit her, she refused by saying, “Please don’t bring them here”. Aafia also stated that she tried profusely to stay true to her religion and its practices, but termed her detainment center as severely unhygienic and alleged that she was given unclean materials and detergents.
Aafia also alleged that her case supervisor and two others attempted to rape her in February. The CG also mentioned that Aafia didn’t want to be photographed in jail. However, she wrote a short message in Urdu for her mother which is also attached to the report.
Fowzia while submitting the report, lamented that she was extremely upset while reading the report and requested the SC to make it part of the case proceedings.
On June 7, the apex court asked the federal government to find out within three days whether Dr Aafia is still alive or otherwise. According to Fowzia, the government has failed to submit anything in this regard.
On February 3, 2010, a US federal court in New York found Dr Aafia guilty of two counts of attempted murder, armed assault, using and carrying a firearm, and three counts of assault on US officers and employees. She was sentenced to 86 years in prison.
https://tribune.com.pk/story/173776...al-abuse-in-us-detention-confidential-report/
I doubt she will ever get justice...People in this country dont get justice...She is in the land of the terrorists!
Yet all the human rights groups are silent! RIP they should remain silent forever!
By Hasnaat Mailk
Published: June 20, 2018
Dr Aafia Siddiqui. PHOTO: REUTERS
ISLAMABAD: A confidential report prepared by Pakistan’s consul general in Houston, United States of America, of her visit to Dr Aafia Siddiqui claimed that she was subjected to physical and sexual abuse during her ongoing detention.
Consul General Aisha Farooqui visited Aafia at the Federal Medical Center in Carswell, Texas. The report recommends diplomatic authorities to take up the case at the highest levels to find a way for her repatriation so that she can serve her remaining sentence in Pakistan, where her modesty and privacy would not be interfered with.
Aafia’s sister Fowzia Siddiqui submitted the report of the consul general’s May 23 meeting with her.
The report presents details of the miserable state of Aafia, who is being detained, and details of her struggles to protect her dignity, integrity and respect paint a different picture altogether.
It is recommended that a detailed note be sent to the US Department of Justice for an inquiry into the allegations of physical and sexual abuse Aafia spoke of. CG Farooqui also suggested a formal request to be made to the US Department of Justice to restrict male staff members into her unit and to ensure her safety.
Aafia has accused the male staffer of urinating on her possessions.
“Explore a legal mechanism for her repatriation to Pakistan to complete her sentence in Pakistan, where at least she would be safe and would be able to meet her mother and children, who she has not met in almost eight years,” the report further recommends.
During her two-hour meeting, Farooqui stated, she saw Dr Aafia’s nervousness and phobias, and fear of everything and everyone at the facility. It was clear that she was afraid of the jail staff, their violations of her privacy, repeatedly confiscation of her things, the rampant threat of physical and sexual abuse and institutionalised rape and bisexuality that she claimed existed at the FMC Carswell.
“For a practising Muslim woman to be incarcerated in a facility where there was an existential threat of being raped and sexually abused repeatedly is an untenable situation and should not be allowed to continue. In spite of all this, I found Dr Aafia determined, hopeful and full of faith in Allah and Pakistani people that there will be help sent for their daughter specially and that sooner rather than later she would get out of the prison,” CG Farooqui wrote in the report.
Report further reveals that Aafia has no confidence in the New York-based lawyers engaged by her sister. She requested the consul general to tell her family to replace her legal team as soon as possible.
“In her opinion, only her previous attorney, Tina Foster, could be relied upon as she was sincere and was also Muslim. She was also the one who got her son Ahmed out of the secret prison in Afghanistan.”
Aafia also alleged that jail authorities confiscated her belongings. Her phone calls to family members were recorded and monitored. When asked why she did not call her mother in Karachi, Aafia said she didn’t feel comfortable talking to her in the presence of the jail staff.
Aafia also expressed mistrust that jail authorities dialed inaccurate phone numbers on purpose. She suspected that it wasn’t her mother or family on the other end of the line.
“She repeatedly told me she was constantly disturbed in her room and her privacy was consistently violated by jail staff who harassed her, threatened her and attempted to sexually abuse her as well on a number of occasions. Jail staff, including her case supervisor Annie Noblett, barged into her room, confiscated her belongings and made fun of her and even snatched her scarf off her head,” the report read.
“Her belongings were often missing she was of the view that there could be some drugs given to her which made her incoherent and not in her senses like on the three occasions when had visited her previously,” CG Farooqui wrote in the report.
Aafia also accused personal assistant to Pakistan’s former ambassador to the US Husain Haqqani, of siphoning off the $2 million allocated by the government of Pakistan for trial in 2010.
Aafia further described Haqqani as unhelpful and uninterested in her case. She stated that this was public money which had been taken by the two. She further categorically stated unlike the misconceptions about her association with banned organisations, Aafia had little to do with slain al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.
About her written submission to the judge for not filing an appeal against her sentence in 2011, Aafia said she did it because she was not expecting justice from the same judge in the appeal, while additionally claiming that her case was “lost in the US Supreme Court” due to the incompetence of her lawyers. She asserted that her trial was a sham.
When CG Farooqui asked Aafia if she would like her mother and sister to visit her, she refused by saying, “Please don’t bring them here”. Aafia also stated that she tried profusely to stay true to her religion and its practices, but termed her detainment center as severely unhygienic and alleged that she was given unclean materials and detergents.
Aafia also alleged that her case supervisor and two others attempted to rape her in February. The CG also mentioned that Aafia didn’t want to be photographed in jail. However, she wrote a short message in Urdu for her mother which is also attached to the report.
Fowzia while submitting the report, lamented that she was extremely upset while reading the report and requested the SC to make it part of the case proceedings.
On June 7, the apex court asked the federal government to find out within three days whether Dr Aafia is still alive or otherwise. According to Fowzia, the government has failed to submit anything in this regard.
On February 3, 2010, a US federal court in New York found Dr Aafia guilty of two counts of attempted murder, armed assault, using and carrying a firearm, and three counts of assault on US officers and employees. She was sentenced to 86 years in prison.
https://tribune.com.pk/story/173776...al-abuse-in-us-detention-confidential-report/
I doubt she will ever get justice...People in this country dont get justice...She is in the land of the terrorists!
Yet all the human rights groups are silent! RIP they should remain silent forever!
Why can't you believe it can happen in the US?
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they have better system than us .
Yeh but it's not like they're a very nice country. There are several instances of US war crimes and them treating prisoners badly.
I recall once, US soldiers brutal tortured and murdered a 22 year old innocent Afghan and their sentence was something like two months in detention.
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Still nobody can answer what she was doing in Afghanistan in the first place. I guarantee you she was a CIA informant who simply got caught. Totally uninterested in her case.
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Imran Khan vows to bring back Aafia Siddiqui from USA Jail after coming to power
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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”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/04/british-pakistanis-prisoner-swap-war-on-terror
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”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/04/british-pakistanis-prisoner-swap-war-on-terror
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Dr. Aafia should certainly be released, but DEFINITELY NOT in exchange for the scumbag Dr. Shakil. This is an obvious emotional blackmail tactic. Perpetrate heinous crimes against an innocent, and make unreasonable demands. Classic lowlife tactics. If we give in to their demands today, they will make it a practice in the future as well. We cannot afford to act weak here. This disgusting face of America should be highlighted in front of the entire world and thus pressure applied for her release. I am sure ISI can think of much better ways as well. Where there is a will, there is a way. May Allah Help our sister. Aameen.
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Dr. Afia has been cross examined and convicted as a member of Al Qaeda - until proven otherwise under the US Justice system. The Govt of Pakistan is not responsible for her release since she's not classified as a political prisoner.
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