PESHAWAR: Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry Wednesday took notice of a report aired by Geo News about an elderly woman, who has been waiting for the court’s verdict on her application about recovery of ‘Haq Mehr’ for the last 40 years. It may be mentioned here that Geo News had also aired [...]
NEW YORK: Dr Aafia Siddiqui who has been declared as guilty by the US court, said this verdict is not a US verdict; instead, the verdict came from Israel, Wednesday night. In her statement, Dr Aafia Siddiqui said the US judicial is based on injustice, adding, ‘I do not acknowledge the US judicial system.’ She [...]
WASHINGTON: Pakistan on Wednesday voiced dismay after a US court found Dr Aafia Siddiqui– a Pakistani woman guilty of trying to kill American troops in Afghanistan and vowed to press her case. Aafia Siddiqui, 37, a neuroscientist trained at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was found guilty on all charges by a jury in [...]
NEW YORK: The lawyers of Dr Aafia Siddiqui, who has been convicted in a US court, refused to accept the verdict against the US-educated girl. Siddiqui, a tiny, frail woman dressed in a beige tunic and white headscarf covering her mouth and forehead, showed no emotion as the jury pronounced its verdict. After the verdict, [...]
NEW YORK: The trial of Aafia Siddiqui, the Pakistani scientist charged with shooting at her US interrogators in Afghanistan, moved into the final stage on Monday, with defence lawyers highlighting in their final arguments the lack of coherence in the accounts by prosecution witnesses. After both the prosecution and defence delivered their closing arguments, the [...]
