Senate urges govt to bring back Aafia Siddiqui
January 31, 2009 by SAF Desk
By Muhammad Bilal
ISLAMABAD: The Senate on Thursday renewed its demand from the United States to repatriate Dr Aafia Siddiqui to Pakistan.
The issue surfaced when two separate reports of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Functional Committee on Human Rights compiled after some senators met Aafia – who is currently detained in a New York jail – were presented in the upper house.
Senator Mushahid Hussain Syed said the government should ask US President Barack Obama to release the Pakistani citizen, as there are no charges of terrorism proved against her.
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