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India-Pakistan
Pakistan leaving no stone unturned to bring Aafia home
2010-09-28
[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

#6  I think it is nice to see Muslims concerned about the well-being of a woman, but perhaps they do not realize is she is a person of the female persuasion.
Posted by: SteveS   2010-09-28 20:16  

#5  Iranians love stones too...
Posted by: borgboy   2010-09-28 15:02  

#4  Well, hell - since they asked so nicely, let's by all means send her back.

From 30,000 feet. Sans parachute (wouldn't want to mess up her dress with those ugly belts and straps).
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2010-09-28 13:42  

#3  Is She the Female version of Dr Khan?

A Crook to the West but a hero in Pakistan!
Posted by: Paul2   2010-09-28 12:43  

#2  NEWS KERALA > seems the US is claiming that PAKISTAN = ISLAMABAD FAILED TO RESPOND IN A REASONABLE OR TIMELY MANNER [one year]TO US REQUESTS/NEGOTIATIONS to formally send = extradite AAFIA back to her home country Pakistan???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2010-09-28 01:54  

#1  If State had a spine the response would be this:
1) First whine... warning
2) Second whine .. aid reduced by $1,000,000
3) Third whine ... aid reduced by $10,000,000 and a small ISI offices in Rawalpindi targeted by predators
4) fourth whine ... aid reduced by $100,000,000 and ISI HQ in Rawalpindi hit by a MOAB
5) Fifth whine ... all aid halted and all NUKE sites taken out with nukes.
Posted by: Water Modem   2010-09-28 01:17  

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