Why Was Dr Aafia Siddiqui Arrested? What Happened With Dr Aafia Siddiqui?
Finally, after waiting and campaigning for 20 years for Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, Fauzia Siddiqui met her sister who was imprisoned in the jail of the United States. According to the reports, human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith accompanied Dr. Aafia Siddiqui. In addition, Clive Stafford Smith also helped in bringing two Pakistanis home from Guantanamo Bay. For information, Clive Stafford has already met Dr. Aafia Siddiqui once in prison. Reportedly, the two sisters were permitted to see each other from a glass window but no physical contact was permeable. During the meeting of the two sisters, JI Senator Mushtaq Ahmed was present. In the following sections of this article, we have explained who is Dr. Aafia Siddiqui and what happened to her. You should take a while and learn about her. Kindly follow this column till the end. Swipe down the page.
Why Was Dr Aafia Siddiqui Arrested?
JI Senator Mushtaq Ahmad Khan posted a tweet on Wednesday, May 31, 2023, and shared the details of the meeting. He tweeted that listen to the sad story of Dr. Fawzia Siddiqui’s meeting. The situation is alarming and the discussion of the meetings has opened up. It is imperative for people to raise their voices and force the rulers to take immediate action and take up the issue of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui’s release from the American government.
Senator Mushtaq Ahmad tweeted in Urdu reads, “Tomorrow I will meet Dr. Aafia in prison along with Dr. Fauzia and Clive Stafford-Smith. But listen to the sad story of Dr. Fawzia’s meeting today. Although the situation is alarming, the discussions of the meetings have opened up. Now it is necessary for the people to raise their voices and force the rulers to take immediate measures and take up the issue of Afia’s release with the American government. Summary of the meeting. This meeting took place after 20 years and continued for two and a half hours. Dr. Fauzia was not allowed to hug or shake hands with Aafia. And Khaki was in a prison dress. In the first hour of the two-and-a-half-hour meeting, Dr. Aafia narrated the details of the torture she was subjected to daily. It was also difficult to hear.”
According to the JI Senator, the meeting became possible after 20 years. It was a 2.5 hours long meeting. Fauzia could not hug or shake hands with Dr. Aafia. Mushtaq Ahmad also reported that she was wearing a white scarf and mustard prison costume. Fauzia even could not show pictures of Aafia’s children. Reportedly, Dr. Aafia shared how they torture her there daily. In 2003, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui vanished and later it came to know that she was in the custody of US officials. Meanwhile, Fauzia campaigned to get help from Pakistan’s government to bring back her sister. Kindly take a look below and read who is Dr. Aafia Siddiqui.
Dr. Aafia Siddiqui is a graduate of MIT. She gained her medical degree in cognitive neuroscience. Aafia comes from a middle-class Islamic family. The Guardian also has published an article about Dr. Aafia Siddiqui. She was staying in the US where she campaigned for Bosnia, Chechnya, and Afghanistan where pregnant women were being killed. Reportedly, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui wrote emails, organized fundraisers, and made forceful speeches at the local mosque during the stay. Keep reading this article and know more about her.
What Happened With Dr Aafia Siddiqui?
The case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui came to light after 9/11 when the FBI interrogated her and her spouse named Amjad Khan who is a young doctor from Karachi about an unusual purchase of $10,000 in May 2002. Dr. Aafia Siddiqui divorced her husband and then she returned to the United States in 2002. After 10 days of her return to the US, she married Ammar al-Baluchi who is the nephew of the 9/11 mastermind named Khalid Sheikh Mohammad.
In 2003, the FBI issued a global alert for Dr. Aafia Siddiqui and her husband, later she disappeared. Reportedly, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui was picked at the behest of the CIA by the Pakistani Intelligence Agency. Khan was interrogated by the Pakistani FBI and they released him. According to the US officials, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui was arrested after she fired upon a team of US soldiers, from Afghanistan. Amnesty International has been claiming that Dr. Aafia Siddiqui was arrested in Afghanistan. After some time, an American media agency reported that Khalid Sheikh Mohammad gave her name. She was hatching mayhem on behalf of Osama bin Laden, the US government said. Scroll down the page.
US attorney general said in May 2004 that Dr. Aafia Siddiqui is one of the seven most wanted al-Qaida fugitives. He remarked on her as a terrorist facilitator. But the neuroscientist’s family claims a different story that she spent the missing five years at the Bagram detention center in Kabul. In 2008, the federal court indicted Dr. Aafia Siddiqui on charges of assault and attempted murder. Stay tuned to this website for more details and updates.
