Dr.Aafia Siddiqui

Dr. Aafia Siddiqui was born on 2 March 1972 in Karachi.Aafia’s father Muhammad Siddiqui was a UK-Trained Doctor.Aafia Siddiqui has three children Ahmed, Maryamand Suleman.Aafia moved to Texas in 1990 to be near her brother.After spending a year at the University of Houston,She transferred to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).Dr.Aafia Siddiqui’s fellow students say she was a quiet. She was devout in her religious beliefs.
 A fellow student, Hamza, recalled in an interview with the BBC,

I remember Aafia as being sweet, mildly irritating but harmless.

During her Campus at MIT she joined Muslim Student Association.After Coionmplet of her gradution ,She married With Muhammad Ajmal Khan.

Dr Aafia Siddiqui was kidnapped 13 years ago from Karachi on her way to Karachi airport with her children. She was trafficked outside the country and after keeping her in illegal detention for five years, her arrest was shown in a faked attack on American soldiers in Afghanistan at Bagram base. How could anyone believe this fragile girl could take her children along with her for attacking American soldiers. Aafia is a highly educated girl believing in Islamic Teaching who was busy in research to end the class-based education system from Pakistan.

SECRET DETENTION

Aafia claims that she was kidnapped by the Pakistani intelligence services with her children and transferred into US custody. She further alleges that she was detained in a series of secret prisons for five years during which time she was repeatedly abused, tortured and raped. Aafia’s claim is substantiated by former Bagram detainees who affirmed the presence of a female detainee of Pakistani origin at Bagram, with the prisoner ID “650”. The International Committee for the Red Cross also confirmed that a woman had been detained at Bagram. Immediately after his release from Guantanamo in 2009, ex-Bagram detainee, Binyam Mohamed declared that the woman he saw in Bagram, with the prison no. 650, was indeed Aafia Siddiqui.

The US has previously denied the presence of female detainees in Bagram and that Aafia was ever held there, bar for medical treatment (after they shot her) in July 2008.

Little is known about what happened to Aafia and her children in the five years in which they were missing. However, in October 2009, when Aafia was visited by a Pakistani parliamentary delegation she spoke a little about the five years in which she had been disappeared, saying “I have been through living hell”. She described being given an injection and when she came to, she was in a cell. She said she was being brainwashed by men who spoke perfect English, who may have been Afghans. She did not think they were Pakistanis. She described being forced to make false confessions and sign statements. She alleged that she had been tortured although she provided no details. She was also told by her captors that if she did not co-operate, her children would suffer. During her trial, Aafia alluded to being tortured in secret prisons, to being raped, her children being tortured, and being threatened to be “sent back to the bad guys” – men she described as sounding like Americans but could not be “real Americans” but “pretend Americans” due to the treatment they had subjected her to. After her trial it emerged that the government of Pakistan had put a gag order on Aafia’s family in exchange for releasing her eldest son Ahmed.

Aafia’s lawyers, Elaine Sharpe and Elizabeth Fink, would later corroborate this by stating publicly that she had “been through years of detention, whose interrogators were American, who endured treatment fairly characterised as horrendous” and that she had been “tortured”.

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We should pray for Dr.Aafia.

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