The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Thursday heard the constitutional petition of the sister of Aafia Siddiqui, leader of Aafia Movement Pakistan and noted neuro physician Dr Fowzia Siddiqui and adjourned the hearing to April 24, as the government side sought more time to file their comments .
Previously, the honorable court had heard the constitutional petition on April 8 and issued notices to the federation of Pakistan through Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Principal Secretary Prime Minister House; Ministries of Interior Affairs and Human Rights through their respective secretaries to file their comments by April 16, 2020.
Dr Fowzia Siddiqui has filed this constitutional petition in the SHC, praying to direct the government of Pakistan to seek urgent release of Dr Aafia Siddiqui from a US prison on medical grounds. In her petition filed through Advocate Irfan Aziz, making the federation of Pakistan through Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Principal Secretary Prime Minister House; Ministries of Interior Affairs and Human Rights through their respective secretaries; and Consul General of US Consulate at Karachi respondents, Dr Fowzia Siddiqui maintained that a US Court illegally, unlawfully tried the case of Dr Aafia Siddiqui because Aafia was a Pakistani citizen and she was handed over to USA without any jurisdiction, forcibly and without giving her fair opportunity of trial, and later she was intentionally convicted for 86 years in prison without any justification and lawful reasons.
The petitioner said she ran against these atrocities from pillar to post to create as tired on every available forum to seek freedom of Dr Aafia who is detained in Prison called FMC Carswell, Fort Worth Texas in USA. She said that the USA distorted all the norms and international charters in case of Aafia, who is currently kept in horrific conditions in their Federal prison, where vindictive guards and administrators miss no opportunity to harass and humiliate her, often using her religious convictions as a convenient target.
