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NEW YORK: Dr Aafia Siddiqui, who is under U.S. detention on charges of attempted murder, does not have faith in the American judicial system and insists that the case against her is false and baseless, according to the head of a Pakistani parliamentary delegation which met her in Texas on Tuesday.
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NEW YORK/WASHINGTON: The head of a visiting delegation of Pakistani senators has called for immediate release of Dr Aafia Siddiqui from US detention after a long meeting on Tuesday with her in a Texas facility where she is undergoing psychological evaluation.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Mushahid Hussain Sayed told APP by telephone that the four-member delegation had two and a half hours meeting with Dr Siddiqui, the US-educated Pakistani neuroscientist, at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) at Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas.
Ms Siddiqui, 36, who was shot in the abdomen by an American agent after allegedly grabbing a US soldier's gun during questioning in July, was brought to New York on August 4 to face charges of attempted murder and assault.Read the rest of this entry »
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NEW YORK, Oct 8: Four Pakistani senators on Tuesday met Aafia Siddiqui, the Pakistani neuroscientist being held at a medical facility in Carswell, Texas, for medical evaluation, on orders from a US court judge.
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Aafia Siddiqui, 36, a U.S.-trained neuroscientist suspected of having links to al Qaeda was shot in the abdomen by an officer after allegedly grabbing a U.S. soldier's gun during questioning in July and was brought to the United States on charges of attempted murder and assault.
A five-member delegation of Pakistani parliamentarians met Siddiqui for three hours at a medical facility in a military prison compound at Fort Worth near Dallas, Texas.
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NEW YORK/WASHINGTON, Oct 8 (APP): The head of a visiting delegation of Pakistani senators has called for the immediate release of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui from US detention after a long meeting on Tuesday with her in a Texas facility where she is undergoing psychological evaluation.
Mushahid Hussain Sayed, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told APP by telephone that the four-member delegation had 2-1/2-hour meeting with Dr. Siddiqui, the US-educated Pakistani neuroscientist, at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) at Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas.
Ms. Siddiqui, 36, who was shot in the abdomen by an American agent after allegedly grabbing a US soldier's gun during questioning in July, was brought to New York on August 4 to face charges of attempted murder and assault.
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Washington, Oct 9 (ANI): Pakistani terror suspect Dr Aafia Siddiqui, who is jailed in the US and facing trial for allegedly attacking US security personnel with an assault weapon during interrogation after being arrested in Afghanistan, has said that she didnt have faith in the US judicial system, and that the assault case against her was false and baseless.
She revealed this to the four-member Pakistani parliamentary delegation who met her for two hours 45 minutes on Tuesday at the Texas facility, where she is presently held for psychiatric evaluation to determine if she was fit to stand trial.
The US security personnel claim that after she tried to make a murderous attack on them they fired at her in self defence.According to the delegation, her bullet wound had healed and she appeared to be in much better health and physical condition than she has been since her arrest in Afghanistan . Read the rest of this entry »
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NEW YORK, Oct 9 (APP): Dr Aafia Siddiqui, who is under U.S. detention on charges of attempted murder, does not have faith in the American judicial system and insists that the case against her is false and baseless, according to the head of a Pakistani parliamentary delegation which met her in Texas on Tuesday.
Mushahid, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told a press conference in New York on Wednesday evening that Dr. Siddiqui, a U.S.-educated Pakistani neuroscientist, wanted the case against her dropped and she wished to be returned to Pakistan.
Ms. Siddiqui, 36, who was shot in the abdomen by U.S. agent after she allegedly grabbed an American soldier's gun during questioning in July, was brought to New York on August 4 to face charges of attempted murder and assault.
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