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Posts Tagged ‘Al-Qaeda’

Dr. Aafia Says “Send My Food to My Son in Afghanistan”

By Muskan Hina • Sep 6th, 2008 • Category: Features

Anita Loos - “Memory is more indelible than ink.”
The daughter of Pakistan, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui is facing the trial in the American court, and the charges upon are the most ridiculous one every heard of. She has been through great misery and great pain, and her body is full with wounds and years of torture […]



Sister Dr. Aafia Siddiqui’s Sacrifice

By Asim H. Akhund • Aug 14th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Moazzam Begg, ex-Guantanamo detainee, who was also held at Bagram airbase for approximately a year and then transferred to Guantanamo, wrote in his book “Enemy Combatant: A British Muslim’s Journey To Guantanamo and Back” about woman screams and how he first imagined they could be from his wife. It was later confirmed that the screams […]



Where is Conscience of New Yorkers?

By Fatima Tassaduq • Aug 14th, 2008 • Category: Politics

In the twilight of his era, Musharraf’s one more cruel crime has surfaced to show us the mirror as a nation. For four years, agonized screams of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui reverberated in the notorious Bagram Jail of United States Army, and now she has been put to the court in New York with a ridiculous […]



Still Musharraf Hasn’t Denied His Son’s Selling of Dr. Aafia

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Aug 12th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Dr. Aafia is ill, very ill. Her wounds have become infected and she cannot walk and she has to be wheeled to the court. She has been in the Bagram Jail going through the hell. Just visualize the pictures of Abu Gharib Jail, where US marines and dogs were acting together in same fashion and […]



Son of Musharraf Sold Dr. Aafia to FBI?

By Dr. Hassan Isfahani • Aug 10th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Barrister Iqbal Jafferi, who is 70 years old and suffers from prostate cancer, has filed a petition in Islamabad High Court on August 8, in which he has accused President Pervez Musharraf’s son, Bilal Musharraf, of taking the bounty money that the FBI had announced for the head of Dr Aafia Siddiqui.
It’s true that some […]



Prisoner 650(Grey Ghost of Bagram)

By Asim • Aug 8th, 2008 • Category: Politics

My name is Prisoner 650,
Known I am as the “Grey Ghost”
Of Bagram, my home, remember me
In years of silence, in moments
Of indifference, created by you
Familiar are those walls and rooms
Of torture, of questions and of abuse
Familiar are those old echoes,
As all ideologies fall away in shame
Of protection of rights and freedom
Familiar I am to these […]



Dr. Aafia Siddiqui and Mohammad Bin Qasim

By M Mirza • Aug 8th, 2008 • Category: Politics (Urdu)



Grey Lady Aafia Siddiqui Surfaces

By Ali Yar Khan • Aug 6th, 2008 • Category: Politics

So they say that she grabbed the pistol of an American warrant officer, and then shot at another American captain within a room, missed, and then she was shot, subdued by the American soldiers and FBI agents present. Up till the last moment, the dangerous Al Qaeda operative struggled and kicked and hurled customery expected […]



Have They Found Dr. Aafia?

By Ali Yar Khan • Aug 5th, 2008 • Category: Politics

According to the media reports, On Thursday, an FBI official visited Aafia Siddiqi’s brother in Houston, USA to deliver the news that she was alive and in custody. FBI further told the brother of Aafia, that she is alive, though injured and is in Afghanistan.
Dr. Aafia has become one of the rare case of in […]



Jalaluddin Haqqani : Another Bogeyman in Construction By CIA

By Ali Yar Khan • Jul 31st, 2008 • Category: Politics

Jalaluddin Haqqani was the most favorite ally/agent or whatever of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of America during the Afghan war, and as the Russian were chased out of the Afghanistan; the Western media portrayed Maulana Jalauddin Haqqani, the commander of Ahmad Shah Mehsud, and he was also the commander of Maulvi Younus, and he received […]