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Afghanistan/South Asia
Sisters held over ‘militant activities’: Mother released
2005-09-21
Gul Andama, who was picked up by a security agency along with her son Bilal and two Baloch sisters on charges of plotting suicide attacks, was released on September 17, her son said on Tuesday. “My mother told me that Bilal and the two sisters – Arifa and Saba Baloch – are still under the agency’s custody but are in good health,” Mohammad Rafiq told Daily Times. He said his mother told family members that the agency had arranged her meeting with her son Asif once a week. “My mother was allowed to stay with Saba, who gave birth to a baby boy hours before her arrest,” Rafiq added.

A PHC division bench on August 22 disposed of a habeas corpus petition about the whereabouts of Gul Andama, her son Bilal and two Baloch sisters after Deputy Attorney General Salahuddin, counsel for the Interior Ministry, told the court that the government and security agencies did not know their whereabouts. Barrister Masood Kauser told Daily Times that it was unfortunate that whenever such cases came to the court, 99 percent of them were disposed of due to “the unprofessional attitude” of government lawyers. Andama’s husband Hameed Khan, 75, in his petition said that the security agencies had picked up his son Bilal, wife Gul Andama and the two sisters. He said that Bilal had married Arifa and the agencies arrested them when they were returning from a hospital in Swat district where Saba had given birth to a baby boy.
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