{"id":70605,"date":"2025-04-14T13:58:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T08:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=70605"},"modified":"2025-04-14T13:58:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T08:58:34","slug":"aafia-siddiquis-us-counsel-set-to-visit-pakistan-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/aafia-siddiquis-us-counsel-set-to-visit-pakistan-in-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Aafia Siddiqui&#8217;s US counsel set to visit Pakistan in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The counsel Clive Stafford Smith, representing<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/white-house-receives-clemency-petition-for-aafia-siddiqui\/\"> Dr. Aafia Siddiqui<\/a> in the United States, has planned to arrive to attend a court hearing on her release, the local counsel of Pakistani neurologist, Imran Shafique, told the<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/ihc-resume-twice-a-week-meetings-of-imran-khan-in-adiala-jail\/\"> Islamabad High Court<\/a> (IHC) at a hearing on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Stafford Smith will arrive in Pakistan on May 4, and the current hearing to be adjourned until May 6 to allow him time for consultation with the USA-based lawyer, as stated by Shafique while requesting the Court.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Sardar Ijaz Ishaq Khan, who was presiding over the hearing, asked government representatives if they had any objections to the proposed date.<\/p>\n<p>The government lawyer showed no objection to the proposed date by Aafia&#8217;s lawyer, and subsequently, the hearing was postponed until 6 May.<\/p>\n<p>During the hearing, the esteemed court observed the non- presence of newly appointed Attorney General Umar Aslam. the case is now set to be heard on 6 May for further deliberation.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, during the prior hearing, the federal government rejected a request to trade Dr. Aafia Siddiqui&#8217;s release for the freedom of Dr. Shakil Afridi, a Pakistani doctor convicted of aiding the CIA in the search for Osama bin Laden.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, born in 1972 in Karachi, Pakistan, was an accomplished neuroscientist who earned a PhD from Brandeis University in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>She was captured in Afghanistan in 2008, reportedly in possession of sodium cyanide and intentions to strike US sites. During interrogation, Siddiqui reportedly grabbed a US soldier&#8217;s gun and attempted to kill US agents while yelling, &#8220;Death to America.&#8221; She was injured throughout the procedure and later showed signs of severe mistreatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The counsel Clive Stafford Smith, representing Dr. Aafia Siddiqui in the United States, has planned to arrive to attend a court hearing on her release, the local counsel of Pakistani neurologist, Imran Shafique, told the Islamabad High Court (IHC) at a hearing on Monday. Stafford Smith will arrive in Pakistan on May 4, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":59759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,2],"tags":[22096,317,138],"class_list":["post-70605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-pakistan","tag-aafia-siddiqui","tag-ihc","tag-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70608,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70605\/revisions\/70608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}