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Posts Tagged ‘Moazzam Begg’

Why Dr. Aafia’s Children Were Also Taken By United States?

By Fatima Tassaduq • Sep 16th, 2008 • Category: Politics

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 [...]



Dr. Aafia Siddiqui : Her Ordeal and People of Pakistan

By amicus • Sep 7th, 2008 • Category: Politics

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 [...]



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

By Muskan Hina • Sep 6th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

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 [...]



Pakistani woman in Bagram : Are we an independent nation?

By M. Waqas (Ex MPA) • Jul 8th, 2008 • Category: Misc, Worth A Second Look

The other day British journalist Yvonne Ridley stunned the nation when she called for help on Sunday for a Pakistani woman she believes is being held in isolation by the Americans in their Bagram detention centre in Afghanistan, for more than four years.” I call her the ‘grey lady’ because she is almost a ghost, [...]