ISLAMABAD: While addressing a crowded press conference at the Islamabad Press Club on Tuesday, Aafia Movement leader and leading neuro physician, Dr Fowzia Siddiqui, questioned the Pa
kistani government’s determination to bring Dr Aafia Siddiqui.
“Pa
kistani rulers keep wasting opportunities to seek the release of Pa
kistani mother Dr Aafia Siddiqui from United States’ (US) custody and it is extremely strange how the Pa
kistan government is shying away from even writing a simple letter to the
US administration, requesting them to pardon and release Aafia,” Dr Fowzia said.
She said that yet another golden chance went to waste, as US President Obama was never officially asked to pardon Dr Siddiqui, when the term of his administration is about to end. A simple letter, officially written by the government of Pa
kistan, may result in the release of the nation’s daughter, but the Pa
kistanis fails
to understand why their government is reluctant to write a simple letter.
The Aafia Movement leader said that during the last 14 years no Pa
kistani presi
dent or prime minister officially asked the
US administration on Aafia’s detention. This is a bitter fac
t that tells us loud and clear that they are our own rulers, who betrayed Dr Aafia.
