Islamabad - Pakistan today asked the US for the”immediate repatriation”of one of its nationals, detained by American authorities on the charge that she tried to kill its military officers in Afghanistan. Pakistani Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani took up the issue of release of Pakistani neuroscientist, Aafia Siddiqui with the visiting US Assistant Secretary of State [...]
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By Khalid Hasan
WASHINGTON: Of the 248 detainess currently imprisoned at Guantanamo, only four are Pakistanis, a Brookings Institution study has shown.
They are: Majid Khan (No 10020), Saifullah Paracha (No 1094), Abdul Rahim Ghulam Rabbain (No 1460) and Muhammad Ahmed Ghulam Rabbani (No 1461). The study said, “As of December [...]
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan
A Pakistani court has ordered a 20-year-old from Raleigh, N.C., to be detained for two more weeks after he was accused of trying to enter a militant stronghold near the Afghan border, police said yesterday.
The extended detention of Jude Kenan comes as America’s top diplomat in the region, Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher, [...]
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Bar Council Saturday urged the United Nations to intervene and play its due role in safeguarding the civil rights and liberty of Dr Aafia Siddiqui and for her fair and transparent trial by a competent court of law.
A meeting of the Human Rights Committee of the Pakistan Bar Council was held here [...]
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LAHORE
PML-N Quaid Mian Nawaz Sharif has reiterated his statement on Monday that Dr Aafia Siddiqi was the daughter of Pakistan and it was the responsibility of the government to put diplomatic pressure upon the US government for the release of Dr Aafia and her children and their return to Pakistan.He said this [...]
By CHRIS BRUMMITT
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani court has ordered an American detained for two more weeks after he was accused of trying to enter a militant stronghold near the Afghan border, police said Monday.
The extended detention of 20-year-old Jude Kenan of Raleigh, North Carolina comes as America’s top diplomat in the region, [...]
By Anwar IqbalWASHINGTON, Oct 15: Mystery surrounding the detention of a US citizen from a remote tribal area thickens as Pakistani authorities say they have released him while the US State Department says he is still in custody.
“I can confirm news reports that … an American citizen (is) detained by Pakistani officials in the [...]
ISLAMABAD, Oct 14 (APP): Chairman Senate Standing Committee on Interior and member of a delegation of Pakistani MPs who had recently visited Dr. Aafia Siddiqui in Texas (USA), Senator Talha Mehmood Tuesday said the life of Dr. Aafia is in danger and called for her immediate release from US detention.
“The [...]
The Internal Security Act (ISA) has been there for 48 years in Malaysia. For most of the ISA detainees who have been detained without trial in Kamunting, this Hari Raya celebration would be their sixth or seventh Syawal in detention for indefinite period of time with no right to an open trial, no right to [...]
ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Speaker Dr Fehmida Mirza left for the United States on Monday.
“The speaker has gone to the US on the invitation of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice,” sources in the National Assembly Secretariat told Daily Times.
During her five-day visit, Fehmida will join the Pakistani women parliamentarians who are already in the US, the [...]
Phillip Adams | September 16, 2008
GUANO is birdshit. A few of our Pacific neighbours live on islands made of it and depended on the income it provided. Until it was all gone. Does Guantanamo have the same avian origin? Or was it made entirely of bullshit? The Bush administration lived on the political proceeds for [...]
LONDON, (APP): The British member of Parliament Lord Nazir Ahmed has sought permission to visit Pakistan neuro-scientist Dr. Aafia Siddiqui under US custody in New York on alleged charges of terrorism.
Speaking at a news conference at his Central London office on Tuesday accompanied by former British journalist Yvonne Ridley who had first raised concerns [...]
Andrew Gilmore at 8:49 AM ET
[JURIST] The Pakistani Ambassador to the US, Husain Haqqani [official profile], met with US officials on Sunday to discuss the release of six Pakistani citizens currently being held at the US military detention center at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive]. Pakistani media outlets, including the Associated Press of Pakistan [...]
By Khalid Hasan
WASHINGTON: Ammar Al Balochi, who, all accounts suggest, is Dr Aafia Siddiqui’s second and current husband, is in Guantanamo, facing trial by a military tribunal on terrorism-related charges.
There were six Pakistanis left at the United States detention facility, one of whom, Qari Muhammad Saeed Iqbal, was repatriated to Pakistan recently and is [...]
BY CAROL ROSENBERG
crosenberg@miamiherald.com
The Pentagon sent three more war-on-terror captives home from Guantánamo this weekend — two to Afghanistan and one to Pakistan, the Defense Department said Tuesday.
In keeping with Pentagon policy, no details were released of the latest transfer from the remote prison camp, which has been soaked by rains from a string of [...]
Demonstration outside Pakistani
High Commission in London
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Amnesty International called on the Pakistan government to reveal the fate and whereabouts of hundreds of disappeared people, amid international protests to mark the 25th International Day of the Disappeared on Saturday 30 August.
Amina Janjua, the founder of Defence of Human Rights, a Pakistani organisation that [...]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is seeking consular access and a delegation of parliamentarians will visit the USA to meet Dr Aafia Siddiqi, currently under detention in New York.
Foreign Office spokesman Muhammad Sadiq said in his weekly briefing here on Thursday He said that the matter of Dr Aafia Siddiqi’s repatriation to Pakistan had also been taken up [...]
ISLAMABAD, A joint meeting of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Human Rights Committee Friday strongly condemned Indian atrocities in occupied Kashmir and expressed complete solidarity with the APHC and the Kashmiri people. The joint meeting which was presided over by the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed, was also [...]
Islamabad: Pakistan on Wednesday announced plans to release 35 Indian prisoners on Friday on the occasion of India’s 61st Independence Day.
The measure is a goodwill gesture and part of Pakistan’s strategy to improve relations with India, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said in a statement.
Also read: Pakistan to approach UN over J&K crisis
The group includes [...]
Its All About Pakistan
WASHINGTON: Pakistan has officially demanded U.S that Pakistani detainee Dr. Aafia Siddiqui be provided under Pakistan’s custody here on late Tuesday, sources said.
Pakistan ambassador to United States Hussain Haqqani has forwarded a letter to U.S. State Department demanding sue motto custody of Aafia Siddiqui to Pakistan, it added.
Letter reveals Pakistan’s demand [...]
NEW YORK - A senior Pakistani Embassy diplomat, who met with Aafia Siddqui in the Brooklyn detention center on Saturday, assured her that the embassy would make all possible efforts to ensure that her rights as an under-trial prisoner were respected.
Counsellor Faqir Syed Asif Hussain had 2-1/2-hour meeting with Ms Siddiqui after United States authorities [...]
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MULTAN: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that he has issued instructions to the Pakistani mission in Washington to provide legal assistance to Dr Aafia Siddiqui in her case. Talking to the media people here, the foreign minister said that as soon as the incarceration of Dr Aafia came to his knowledge he [...]
By Usman Manzoor
ISLAMABAD: Another debate has erupted after Barrister Iqbal Jafferi’s petition in the Islamabad High Court in which he has submitted that a huge amount of bounty money was received for handing over Dr Aafia Siddiqui to the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Barrister Jafferi, in his petition filed on August 8, has accused [...]
A little more clarity has emerged in respect of Aafia Siddiqui who appeared in a New York court on Aug 5 and was ordered to be held without bail. We now at least know that she is alive, though not in the best of health according to eyewitness reports from the courtroom. We also know [...]
By NISAR MEHDI
KARACHI - Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Central General Secretary Munawar Hassan has urged the government to take-up efforts to release Dr Aafia Siddiqui from the captivity of United States.
He lashed on agencies who are harassing the family of Dr Aafia and said that it’s the prime responsibility of the government to protect [...]
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