Civil society leaders have appealed to the OIC countries to pass a resolution for release of Dr Aafia Siddiqui.
As per details, the civil society leaders wrote a letter to federal secretary Afzal Latif, foreign secretary Suhail Ahmed and director general OIC Farukh Iqbal Khan, congratulating the government of Pakistan and OIC leadership for holding a OIC foreign ministers’ meeting in Islamabad on this critical juncture of history.
The letter written by Joining Hands Women Organization chairperson Sabeen Memon, Human Rights Council of Pakistan chairman Jamshed Hassan, Pasban Democratic Party general secretary Iqbal Hashmi and others welcomed the OIC moot in Islamabad scheduled on March 22-23. They appealed that on this occasion, resolution should be passed for the release of Dr Aafia and her repatriation back home.
They hoped that the OIC member countries would play their due role in this noble cause and would not disappoint those millions of Muslims of different countries, who are struggling and anxiously waiting for the release of Dr Aafia Siddiqui.
They said that Dr Aafia, a highly educated daughter of the Ummah and a genius citizen of Pakistan, who has been in a US jail for the last 19 years despite she has committed no crime. The Jamia Umul Qura mosque of Mecca, Saudi Arabia has already issued a Fatwa or religious decree making the Muslim countries and citizens bound for discharging their responsibilities towards the release of Dr Aafia Siddiqui.
They said today Islamophobia is so high in the world that the United Nations has to pass a resolution against it. They said one of the reasons of aggressive behavior of the anti-Islamic forces is that the Muslim countries have adopted a mum over atrocities and Dr Aafia Siddiqui and other daughters and sisters like her.
