Karachi: Jamaat e Islami Pakistan Amir Syed Munawar Hassan has said, “Dr. Aafia is the prestige of Pakistan and daughter of nation. A joint serious effort for her release is the need of the hour and our joint responsibility.” He expressed these views while visiting to Asmat Siddiqui, the mother of Dr. Aafia at her residence to greet her jubilation of Eid-ul-Fitr.
He said that former dictator had handed Aafia over to the US forces in greed of dollars; unfortunately present democratic ruling regime was also following the footprints of ex dictator in this regard. The present government didn’t take any solid measure for the release of Dr. Aafia, he added.
JI Amir said that the illegal detention of DR. Aafia was not the issue of a person or a family, but of the entire nation and Ummat. HE further said that the Dr. Aafia was sentenced without proves of allegations, laved against her and the US had blow the justice with such a bias and illogical decision.
On the occasion Siddiqui told Hassan that her daughter was deprived of basic human rights in the jail of the US. She said that her son went to meet his sister but was not allowed by the jail authorities on the occasion of Eid. She hailed the role of JI in the struggle to release Dr. Aafia.