Friday, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif assured the family of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui that the government remains fully determined to provide all possible legal and diplomatic support in his case.
The Prime Minister sent this at a meeting with Dr Fouzia Siddiqui, Sister of Dr Aafia, according to a statement published on Friday by the Prime Minister’s office.
The declaration stressed that the government is in no way negligent on this subject. He also stressed that, under the Prime Minister’s instructions, diplomatic and legal assistance has already been extended.
In addition, the Prime Minister had written to the American president at the time, Joe Biden, to request intervention in the case. A committee led by Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar has also been trained to ensure new progress.
“The committee will remain in close contact with Dr. Fouzia and will work to provide the necessary assistance,” added the press release.
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Dr. Aafia, a Pakistani neuroscientist who is currently imprisoned in the United States, has been sentenced to 86 years in prison for attempted murder – a sentence considerably exceeding the 10 -year -old legal maximum for crime.
She served 16 years behind bars and has been separated from her children for more than two decades.
Dr. Aafia would have been intercepted in Karachi in March 2003 while he was traveling with his three children and later disappeared for five years. It was later revealed in 2008 that she was imprisoned in Afghanistan before being transferred to the United States.
While two of his children, Ahmed and Maryam, were released respectively in 2008 and 2010, the fate of his son Sulaiman remains unknown.
