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Malik seeks Aafia's repatriation on humanitarian grounds
No. Would you like some tea and a slice of cake to go with that?
[Dawn] Interior Minister Rehman Malik
Pak politician, Interior Minister under the Gilani government. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. He had to give up the interior ministry job because he held dual Brit citizenship.
 has appealed to the US Administration to repatriate placed in durance vile
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
 Pak neuro-scientist Dr. Aafia Siddiqui
...American-educated Pak cognitive neuroscientist who was convicted of assault with intent to murder her U.S. interrogators in Afghanistan. In September 2010, she was sentenced to 86 years in jug after a three-ring trial. Siddiqui, using the alias Fahrem or Feriel Shahin, was one of six alleged al-Qaeda members who bought $19 million worth of blood diamonds in Liberia immediately prior to 9-11-01. Since her incarceration Paks have taken her to their heart and periodically erupt into demonstrations, while the government tries to find somebody to swap for her...
 to her home country on humanitarian grounds.

Malik, who met several top American officials, said that he cited the plight of Aafia's ailing mother and the adverse impact of years of separation on her children who intensely want to meet her and want her back in the country.
The poor darlings. If only their mama had chosen a different occupation, they would not be in this mess. Still, when they are old enough to travel, they can fly to America and gaze lovingly at her prison.
"I raised the issue with the full force of Pak people's emotions, let us hope the request is considered sympathetically," he told Washington-based Pak journalists on Friday evening.
No. More tea?
Malik met with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as For a good time at 3 a.m. call Hillary and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Daniel Webster ...
, Secretary Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, Director FBI Robert Mueller and US Special envoy for Pakistain and Afghanistan Marc Grossman.

"One way to deal with the situation resulting from Aafia's imprisonment here," he suggested, "could be that she be allowed to complete rest of her sentencing in Pakistain."
Seriously? Wow. No. Perhaps a bit more cake?
But he dismissed the notion that there could be a trade-off that Aafia be repatriated in exchange for release of Dr. Shakil Afridi, a Pak, who worked for CIA in hunt for the late Osama bin Laden
... who is now among the dear departed, though not among the dearest...
, and had been placed in durance vile
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
 by a tribal court for his links to bully boy organizations.

"These are two totally different cases," Rehman Malik remarked.
Oh well. Perhaps next time you'll reject trading your nuke collection for her.

Posted by: Fred 2012-10-07
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