MULTAN:Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F) joint secretary Haji Muhammad Ashraf Qureshi called upon the government to help get Dr Aafia Siddiqui released from a US jail. “Dr Aafia Siddiqui is an innocent Muslim lady. She and her children have been victimized by the Zionist lobby for no sin of theirs,” he said.
He said that allegations against her are baseless and part of a plot to defame Muslims across the world, and to paint them as terrorists. He also regretted “the criminal silence” of human rights organizations and activists on this issue. The PML-F leader further observed that the coalition government should also include the case of disappearing persons in the charge-sheet for impeachment against President Musharraf.
Protests against her detention are going. Dr Fauzia Siddiqui, the sister of Pakistani scientist Dr Aafia Siddiqui who is in the US custody, said that the life of her sister was in danger and she was not being supplied proper medical treatment. Addressing a protest demonstration of Pakistan Islamic Medical Association (PIMA), here on Saturday, against Dr Aafia’s detention, she said that her sister had been inhumanly tortured.
She said that the medical facilities, given to Dr Aafia on orders of American court were not only insufficient but also incompetent. She said that the US had not only illegally detained Dr Aafia without any evidence but they were also providing no information about her children, which was against the internationally accepted human rights. Protestors also demanded government to use diplomatic pressure on the US government for early release of Dr Afia.-SANA
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