News Source: dailymail
| about 1 year ago
Pakistan has asked the United States to provide it consular access to Dr Afia Siddiqui, who is a Pakistani national and is believed to be in the custody of U.S. authorities. Pakistan�s ambassador to the United States, Husain Haqqani made the...
News Source: Washington Post
| about 1 year ago
Officers in Court Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, August 5, 2008; 1:45 PM A U.S.-educated Pakistani woman suspected of links to al-Qaeda is being brought to federal court in New York today on charges of attempting to kill American military...
News Source: Chowk
| about 1 year ago
Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, the MIT graduate of Pakistani descent, who the US FBI claims to be an Al-Qaeda affiliate disappeared in Karachi on March 30, 2003. At the time of her disappearance Siddiqui was with her three children, aged 9 years through six...
News Source: Turkish Press
| about 1 year ago
She faces a maximum sentence of 20 years prison on each charge, if found guilty. Siddiqui was also on a 2004 US list of suspects linked to Al-Qaeda. However, supporters in Pakistan describe Siddiqui as victim of a miscarriage of justice. They say...
News Source: Yedioth Ahronoth
| about 1 year ago
S Pakistan has demanded consular access to a Pakistani woman with suspected links to al-Qaeda who is due to be arraigned in New York on Tuesday on charges of attempting to murder US troops and FBI agents in Afghanistan. The New York Times newspaper...
News Source: South Africa News
| about 1 year ago
Aafia Siddiqui, who was educated at the elite Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), was transported to the United States on charges of shooting at US soldiers while in detention in Afghanistan, a US attorney said. Siddiqui (36), disappeared...