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Dr Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani scientist languishing in US jail on charges of attacking US forces in Afghanistan, has expressed no confidence in lawyers provided by the Pakistani government and refused to appear before the US federal court. However, the...
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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 behalf...
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A lawyer has moved the Lahore High Court (LHC) against the allocation of $20 million for pleading the case of Dr Aafia Siddiqui in the US. He had prayed to the court for a direction to the federal government that the matter instead might be taken to the...
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Chairman Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf Imran Khan Wednesday urged the government to lodge a formal protest with the US for the illegal detention of Dr Aafia Siddiqui and other Pakistanis languishing in the US prisons adding that efforts should be accelerated...
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Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit has denied the US media reports which claimed Pakistan has shared its nuclear weapons information with US, reports our sources. Briefing the media here Thursday, Abdul Basit termed such news baseless, saying that...
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On Wednesday, a US judge declared the US-educated Dr Aafia Siddiqui, who was extradited to the United States in August, was unfit for trial due to mental incompetence. Judge Richard Berman told the Federal court in New York that Siddiqui is "not currently...
Defense lawyers and prosecutors both dismissed the charges as ridiculous and argued the frail-looking Aafia Siddiqui is mentally unfit to stand trial and should undergo a psychiatric evaluation. Even an evaluation performed by a federal prison doctor...
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Islamabad High Court (IHC) here on Wednesday has expressed its concerns over the Dr Aafia Siddiquis missing children and conveyed these concerns to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said Deputy Attorney General (DAG) Amjad Iqbal Qureshi while talking...
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It was very disturbing to read the news that Dr Aafia Siddiqui is now said to be suffering from chronic depressive-type psychosis. Her symptoms are reported to not only include those one would normally expect in a depressed and anxious person but also...
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Afghan officials have handed over to Pakistan the son of a US-trained Pakistani academic with alleged links to al-Qaeda. Twelve-year old Mohammed Ahmed, son of Dr Aafia Siddiqui, has been handed over to the Pakistani embassy in Kabul. Dr Siddiqui, 36,...
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