The United States (US) State Department Wednesday denied commenting on incarcerated Pakistani neuroscientist Dr. Aafia Siddiqui’s case.
Pakistani neuroscientist Dr. Aafia Siddiqui’s is serving an 86-year sentence in an American prison on terrorism charges.
Addressing a press conference in Washington, US State Department’s Principal Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel stated that inquiries regarding Dr. Aafia Siddiqui’s case should be directed to the Department of Justice.
“So first, I certainly wouldn’t get into private diplomatic communications,” he said.
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Last week it emerged that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has requested Dr Aafia Siddiqui’s release on humanitarian grounds in a letter to President Joe Biden.
The information about the letter emerged last Friday after a state lawyer submitted a copy to the Islamabad High Court, which had recently requested a detailed report on the efforts made by Pakistani authorities to extradite Siddiqui.
“Pakistan government has penned a letter to the US president to seek pardon for Dr Aafia Siddiqui,” AAGP Munawar Dogal told the IHC bench.
Dogal informed the IHC that the premier has written a letter to the US president for the pardon.
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She was born in 1972 into an educated family in Karachi. She pursued her studies in the United States, earning a PhD in neuroscience from Brandeis University in 2001.
Known for her academic brilliance and religious devotion, her life took a significant shift when she was accused of having ties to ‘extremist organizations’ following the 9/11 attacks.
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