Editors’ Note: This week the trial of one of the most wanted women in the war on terrorism begins in a federal courtroom in Manhattan. The defendant, Aafia Siddiqui, is a 37-year-old, MIT-educated neuroscientist and suspected Al Qaeda operative. Siddiqui lived in the U.S. for ten years before mysteriously vanishing from her hometown in Karachi [...]
Read the article “America’s Shame” by Eric Margolis.
Nations that use torture disgrace themselves. Armed forces and police that torture inevitably become brutalized and corrupted. “Limited” use of torture quickly becomes generalized. “Information” obtained by torture is mostly unreliable.
And the American government claims that they are extracting useful information via torture.
CIA “useful” torture information came from [...]
Due to the immense pressure from media and the people, Dr. Aafia herself emerged on the scene and was first taken to a United States military base in Bagram, Afghanistan and then flown to New York, where she is facing charges of assault on US military personnel in Ghazni. During interrogation at the base she [...]
Here’s an Article by Deborah Scroggins,an American journalist and author on Dr. Afia Siddiqi-the Women who’s calling a Mohmmed Bin Qasim. Where are Human Rights Activists, Civil Society and National Concience.
Look at her ordeal, the allegations, her sufferings and let some one answer the questions, where was she? Whose custody she was? What happened to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
