UK MPs call for withdrawal of Aafia case
ISLAMABAD: Describing the conviction of Pakistani neuroscientist Dr. Aafia Siddiqui as a miscarriage of justice, parliamentarians in Britain have called for a withdrawal of the case against her and urged her repatriation to Pakistan.
Lord Nazir Ahmed together with other speakers, said her trial in New York was full of flaws and not based on facts. Ahmed said he would be writing a letter to the US President Barack Obama carrying signatures of other British MPs calling for Siddiqui’s repatriation to Pakistan. The Labour Peer further said he would also raise this question in the parliament to ascertain how the British Government could help in this regard. Lord Altaf Sheikh, MP Muhammad Sarwar, Muhammad Saghir, a representative of Caged Prisoners which represent the inmates of Guantanamo Bay, Rabia Zia of the UK Chapter of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, journalist Yvonne Ridley, who witnessed the trial and Barrister Abid Hussain also spoke on the occasion.
Source: Jang News (reported on 10th Feb, 2010)
