News Source: Dawn
| 2 months ago
A US judge on Wednesday agreed to accept a five-member lawyers’ team to defend Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui despite her vociferous and strong objections saying she wanted to represent herself. The judge set a new trial date of Nov 2
News Source: dailymail
| 3 months ago
Pakistan and China would sign several agreements and Memorandums of Understanding during President Asif Ali Zardari's visit to China beginning today. Briefing newsmen in Islamabad on Thursday, Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit said this will be
News Source: Yedioth Ahronoth
| 3 months ago
The government of Pakistan is seeking new lawyers to represent a US-trained Pakistani neuroscientist who faces a possible life prison sentence for the attempted murder of US interrogators in Afghanistan. Aafia Siddiqui, 37, who the US government
News Source: Jang.com.pk
| 3 months ago
A Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) delegation in a meeting with US Special Envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke on Tuesday conveyed the party's concerns over the expansion in the US embassy in Islamabad and the drone attacks, besides raising the
News Source: Pak Tribune
| 3 months ago
American special envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke has said that America favored the democratic Pakistan and want the enhancement of democratic values here in this country. America would provide every possible economic support to
News Source: The News
| 3 months ago
The Lahore High Court on Monday adjourned till August 27 the hearing of a habeas corpus petition seeking the recovery of Dr Aafia Siddiqui from US detention. The court adjourned hearing after a deputy attorney general filed a written request on
News Source: The News
| 3 months ago
The Lahore High Court on Wednesday restrained the government from releasing $20 million to a panel of three US lawyers for pleading the case of Dr Aafia Siddiqui in the US courts. Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry observed if the payment had not been made