The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Wednesday heard the constitutional petition of the sister of Aafia Siddiqui, leader of Aafia Movement Pakistan and noted neuro physician Dr Fowzia Siddiqui 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, asking them to file their comments by April 16, 2020.
Previous week Dr Fowzia Siddiqui had filed a constitutional petition in the Sindh High Court, praying to direct the government of Pakistan to seek urgent release of Dr Aafia Siddiqui from a US prison on medical grounds, a press statement issued by Aafia Movement said.
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 United State 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 United State of America 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 and tried on every available forum to seek freedom of Dr Aafia Siddiqui 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.
