Finally, after 20 years of waiting and campaigning for Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, Fauzia Siddiqui met her sister who was imprisoned in the United States prison. According to reports, human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith accompanied Dr Aafia Siddiqui. Additionally, Clive Stafford Smith also helped bring back two Pakistanis from Guantanamo Bay. For information, Clive Stafford has already met Dr. Aafia Siddiqui once in prison. Apparently, the two sisters were allowed to see each other from a glass window, but no physical contact was made. When the two sisters met, Senator JI Mushtaq Ahmed was present. In the following sections of this article, we explained who Dr. Aafia Siddiqui is and what happened to her. You should take a moment and learn more about her. Please follow this column until the end. Drag the page down.
Why was Dr Aafia Siddiqui arrested?
Senator JI Mushtaq Ahmad Khan posted a tweet on Wednesday, May 31, 2023 and shared details of the meeting. He tweeted that he was listening to the sad story of Dr Fawzia Siddiqui’s reunion. The situation is alarming and the discussion of the meetings has opened. It is imperative that the people raise their voices and force the leaders to take immediate action and address the issue of the release of Dr Aafia Siddiqui from the US government.
Senator Mushtaq Ahmad tweeted in Urdu: “Tomorrow I will meet Dr Aafia in jail with Dr Fauzia and Clive Stafford-Smith. But listen to the sad story of Dr. Fawzia meeting today. Although the situation is alarming, the discussions of the meetings have opened up. It is now necessary for the people to raise their voices and compel the leaders to take immediate action and raise the issue of Afia’s release with the US government. Summary of the meeting. This meeting took place after 20 years and lasted two and a half hours. Dr. Fauzia was not allowed to hug or shake hands with Aafia. And Khaki was in prison uniform. During the first hour of the two and a half hour meeting, Dr Aafia recounted the details of the torture she suffered daily. It was also hard to hear.
According to Senator JI, the meeting became possible after 20 years. It was a 2.5 hour meeting. Fauzia could not hug or shake hands with Dr. Aafia. Mushtaq Ahmad also reported wearing a white scarf and a mustard prison suit. Fauzia couldn’t even show pictures of Aafia’s children. Apparently Dr. Aafia told how they tortured her daily. In 2003 Dr. Aafia Siddiqui disappeared and later it was learned that she was being held by US officials. Meanwhile, Fauzia campaigned for help from the Pakistani government to bring her sister back. Please take a look below and read who Dr Aafia Siddiqui is.
Dr. Aafia Siddiqui graduated from MIT. She earned her medical degree in cognitive neuroscience. Aafia comes from a middle-class Islamic family. The Guardian also published an article on Dr Aafia Siddiqui. She was staying in the United States where she campaigned for Bosnia, Chechnya and Afghanistan where pregnant women were killed. Reportedly, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui wrote emails, held fundraisers and delivered strong speeches at the local mosque during the stay. Keep reading this article and know more about it.
What happened with Dr Aafia Siddiqui?
The case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui came to light after 9/11 when the FBI questioned her and her spouse named Amjad Khan, a young doctor from Karachi, about an unusual $10,000 purchase in May 2002. The Dr Aafia Siddiqui divorced her husband and then she returned to the United States in 2002. After 10 days of her return to the United States, she married Ammar al-Baluchi who is the nephew of the 9/11 mastermind named Khalid Sheikh Muhammad.
In 2003 the FBI issued a global alert for Dr Aafia Siddiqui and her husband, later she disappeared. Apparently, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui was chosen at the request of the CIA by the Pakistani intelligence agency. Khan was questioned by the Pakistani FBI and they released him. According to US officials, Dr Aafia Siddiqui was arrested after shooting a team of US soldiers from Afghanistan. Amnesty International says Dr Aafia Siddiqui was arrested in Afghanistan. After some time, an American news agency reported that Khalid Sheikh Mohammad gave his name. She was wreaking havoc in the name of Osama bin Laden, the US government said. Scroll down the page.
The United States Attorney General declared in May 2004 that Dr. Aafia Siddiqui was one of al-Qaeda’s seven most wanted fugitives. He called her a terrorist facilitator. But the neuroscientist’s family claims a different story that she spent the missing five years at Bagram detention center in Kabul. In 2008, federal court charged Dr. Aafia Siddiqui with assault and attempted murder. Stay tuned to this website for more details and updates.
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