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Pakistan leaving no stone unturned to bring Aafia home
[Dawn] Pakistain said on Monday it would leave "no stone unturned" in trying to bring home a woman scientist sentenced to 86 years in jail by a US court.
Including taking hostages for trade, it seems. Such devotion to one of the great successes of their nation leads them to lengths no Western government would go.
A New York court on Thursday found Aafia Siddiqui, a once brilliant scientist dubbed "Lady Qaeda" by US tabloids, guilty of the attempted murder of US military officers in Afghanistan in 2008 -- five years after she disappeared.

"We will leave no stone unturned in our efforts to bring her back. We are following both legal and political approaches to get her back," Interior Minister Rehman Malik told a news conference.

He added that the government was concerned about the 38-year old neuroscientist's mental and physical condition and was considering appealing on behalf of Siddiqui's mother and sister to President Barack B.O. Obama to pardon her.

"We are concerned about Dr Siddiqui's living conditions and we would like her not to be transferred to the federal prison," he said.
Nobody wants to be sent to the federal prison. That's why we have them.
"We are writing a letter to the US authorities to know about her health and mental condition."The case of Siddiqui, a mother of three who trained at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brandeis University, has been condemned across the nuclear-armed Mohammedan nation of 167 million.

Thousands of people staged protest rallies across the country on Friday demanding her release. The protesters chanted anti-US slogans and burned US flags and effigies of President Barack Obama.
Thousands? In Pakistan?? The professional protesters must have all been on vacation, even Rage Boy, who needs the money to support his wife and the little Ragelings.
Soon after the verdict the Pakistain government said it would petition Washington to secure her repatriation on humanitarian grounds.

"Our goal is to bring back Dr Siddiqui. They (her family) have asked us to take up the matter with the OIC (Organisation of the Islamic Conference) and the UN Secretary General," Malik said.
Posted by: Fred 2010-09-28
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