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by JUDY BELLO A woman finds herself alone on the street in an unfamiliar neighborhood of an unfamiliar city. The people around her don’t speak her native language, and in fact, she doesn’t understand their language.  She is accompanied by a 12 year old boy, Ali. She doesn’t recognize him, but she has a great affection for children, and he is in her care. He will later be identifi ...

کالم | May 27, 2013 …مظفراعجاز… اب سے ٹھیک 15سال قبل پاکستان دنیا کی ساتویں باضابطہ ایٹمی طاقت بن گیا تھا۔ لیکن جب سے ایٹمی قوت بنا ہے یہ ایٹم بم پاکستانی حکومتوں کے گلے پڑ گیا ہے۔ فوجی حلقے اس ایٹم بم کو بچانے کے لیے کوشاں ہیں اور معاشی ترقی کے دلدادہ اور دعویدار اس سے جان چھڑانے پر راضی… اب گردشِ ایام نے ایٹمی دھماکے کرنے والے میاں نواز شریف کو پھر وزارتِ عظمیٰ کے منصب پر پہنچانے کا ا ...

Dr Fowzia, the sister of the world’s most wanted woman, the alleged Mata Hari of al-Qaeda, talks to Laura Hughes about Aafia Siddiqui and the price her family is paying in the war on terror     Dr. Aafia Siddiqui     “Aafia is my baby sister. She is a loving mother, daughter, sister, and she is a devout Muslim woman. She is not a terrorist.” Mata Hari of al-Qa ...

First Published March 21, 2013, MuslimMatters.org By Andrew Purcell I haven't really been keeping a diary. It just seemed to be a format that worked well. It is not strictly chronological, but it tells the story. Everything I write here is something I saw, both through interacting with Aafia and her family and sitting through her trial in New York City. 2003. Spring. I was at my computer reading the new ...

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Ali Ashraf Khan: The case of Dr. Afia Siddiqi is a glaring example of the troubled relationships between the US and Pakistan and why Pakistanis hate Americans. Afia’s name came up when Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, one of the alleged planners of the September 11 attacks, was interrogated by the CIA after his arrest on March 1, 2003. Mohammed was tortured by water boarding 183 times and the confessions which ...