The lawyer of the Pakistani government has told a court in Islamabad on Friday that the Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif A Pakistani woman wrote a letter to US President Joe Biden Aafia Siddiqui has requested the release of , who is serving 86 years in prison in the United States on charges of terrorism.
The Prime Minister’s letter was submitted to a court in Islamabad, where a petition filed by Fawzia Siddiqui, sister of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, is being heard. Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, a US-trained neuroscientist, was convicted in 2010 on charges including attempted murder of US citizens.
According to a transcript of the October 13 letter available to The Associated Press, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif informed President Joe Biden that Aafia Siddiqui had already served 16 years in prison. He wrote that the issue needed to be ‘sympathetically viewed’.
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Shahbaz Sharif said that many Pakistani officials had met him over the years and expressed serious concern over the treatment of him. Their treatment has adversely affected their already fragile mental and physical health.
Shahbaz Sharif mentioned the fear of the Pakistani authorities and wrote that ‘in fact they fear that she may end her life.’
The Prime Minister requested President Biden to accept the amnesty plea of Aafia Siddiqui’s sister and order her release on humanitarian grounds.
The prime minister said: ‘His family and millions of my countrymen seek your grace for this request.’
Former senator Mushtaq Ahmed Khan said in a conversation with the media outside the court after the hearing that Aafia Siddiqui’s lawyer Clive Smith submitted a petition containing 80 thousand words, the government has written a letter for its extension and support. But writing a letter will not help.
‘Aafia will not be released until a high-level delegation goes to her. It should also include medical doctors, army officers and parliamentarians. Of course, the government can send whatever it likes, but a delegation must go, otherwise nothing will happen.’
He added that the government has taken a week’s time. I appeal to the government that Dr. Aafia, who has been in American prison for 21 years, is responsible for all previous governments.
Aafia Siddiqui was suspected of terrorism when she left the US and moved to Afghanistan to marry the nephew of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
The US arrested him in Afghanistan’s Ghazni province in 2008 and claimed to have recovered from his possession recipes for chemical ingredients and some writings, which mentioned the New York attack.
He was later sentenced to 86 years in prison in 2010 for assaulting US soldiers.
On the other hand, Aafia Siddiqui’s family has long claimed that she went missing from Karachi in 2003 and has since accused former President Pervez Musharraf’s government of secretly handing over Aafia Siddiqui to US authorities. What did
Former military dictator Pervez Musharraf was in power when Pakistan became an ally of the US in the war on terror after the 9/11 attacks. The Pervez Musharraf government arrested dozens of suspects and extradited them to various countries, including the United States.
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