Dr Aafia sentenced to 86 years in prison

When she has not done anything, then why ask for pardon?
Ask for justice. Ask for justice only. Not pity. Recommend

You don’t ‘pardon’ an ‘innocent’ person.

Afia should come back home and speak against the atrocities she went through during her detention – Exposing the papa of justice and democracy like Moazzam Baig did.Recommend

The media spin has begun. She was not innocent but I am quite sure that 76 years was a bit harsh. I guess she can appeal to the higher court. Recommend

what an injustice
may Allah destroy the oppressors, ameenRecommend

@Ghani
agree with you!Recommend

Well I am pretty sure that if the U.S court found her guilty then she was definitely not innocent…..and on what basis are all of you saying she hasn’t done anything wrong??Recommend

this is just so stupid!
76 years?? seriously??

why is the US acting this way? arent they supposed to be the ‘upholders of justice’?

a person has been tortured, a muslim woman to be precise for Gods sake! her whole family has been disturbed!

this is the worst case of prejudice ive seen so far. i just hope to God she gets justice in this life as well and the Hereafter.Recommend

I have not access to any proves and witnesses against her. BUT

I have seen the proves presented by Co. Paul in UN Ge. Assembly against Iraq. I can imagine the proves against her are as childish as those presnted against Irqa to justify Iraq war.Recommend

So why dont we protest infront of GHQ? Recommend

The real face of American Justice for others is exposed.I condemn the sentence given to Aafia Saddiqi and ask the Government of Pakistan that what role they have played for the lady which was accused of false charges and The America has just punished her for nothing and to satisfy her ego. I don’t believe that a women can snatch a gun from an American soldier. absolutely impossible. She was not a six million dollar women. The government has failed to safe guard the human rights.Recommend

The Americans have showed their true colors. Will the Pakistani government stand up and demand her release immediatelyRecommend

Well done Americans…let here rot in US jailsRecommend

America has no right to arrest pakistani innocent people.Boycott american and europian products destroy their economy….Recommend

dont we just love our allies!!Recommend

She was a naturalised American citizen, her uncle and husband saw her during the times she was supposed to be in detention.

She obviously has links with intelligence agencies.Recommend

[To moderator: a correction made in my comment. Thanks.]

@A.Suhail & RS& Tanzeel: Well Said!!!’

Rest of you Shallow Critics – About time that you get your head out of sand, before it is too late. Likes of you are reason Pakistan is on the precipice today. Shame on YOU!!!

For God Sake – Get some Sanity Pill. For what Damn Reason – do you think, she is innocent.

There are THOUSANDS of Pakistani and Muslim lady doctors in United States who live as Americans in peace. Why is this DAMN woman made hero for being a Terrorist.

Get a Nerve, people.. Time may not be too long — – your shallow rhetoric has brought Pakistan to it’s knees in world community.

Instead of accepting and owning up to black sheep terrorists – like Faisal Shehzad and Afia Siddiqui – and, trying to fix the situation, you hypocrits are lining up your bigoted defense. Shame on You!!!! You are the reason that Islam and Pakistan is maligned in this world of today.

And, Trust me, by God – if you Don’t mend – GOD’s Justice will be served -the way it is supposed to be served.

In God’s name- I make strongest appeal to you to stop defending terrorists. Our peaceful religion Islam and Pakistan are great country – like Aisam Qureshi beautifully summarized in his speech at Final in US Open in New York.

And, American are such a great partner to Pakistan helping millions in Flood affected areas. You should be very proud of what they have done. Is that the way, you show support to your true friends by emotional garbage and baggage.

Stop being hypocrities. And, if you invoke God’s name to show your bigotry again – Trust me, God’s Justice is coming to Terrorists and Bigots who are malining Islam, Pakistan and et al.

Peace.Recommend

I urge Govt of Pakistan to not bring her back. Please let her stay in US jail where she belongs. Don’t waste energies on this issue. Lets built Pakistan so that we can take care of flood people, poor people, education and so much more. How come we have time for this lady who is nothing but look at all the other problems our country is facing where women are raped and robberies occur on daily basis and where lynch mobs kill innocent people, lets fight against all these evils.Recommend

What ever happened to all those people who kill their women in the name of family honor? These women are innocent too. I never hear about any public outcry on this issue. In-fact all these mullahs defend these culprits in the name of Islam. As far as Aafia is concerned, she has committed a crime and she had to face the consequences.Recommend

where are the so called liberals and supporters of Justice who talk about things like “Do as the french do”!!!!!!! these are the true face of people here in west, i have been living here for the last 2 years and can feel the air of tension and racism every second. i wish to go back but i have no choice here. Come on Pakistanis, Muslim brothers wake up and stop being selfish and followers of those people. Allah(SWT) says in the Quran” Un-believers will never be happy of you unless you follow what they believe in and do what they think is right” Recommend

Every pakistani will feel sorry for Dr. Afia’s sentence of 86 years. America has double standards of justice – one for its own citizens and the other for citizens of rest of the world.
Those who are protesting against this injustice, resulting loss of lives and properties across the country, I may ask them a question. Do these people know Dr. Afia and what she did better than her (former) husband to whom she bore two children and set up a family home and leading a comfortable life in the united states? Obviously not. I don’t want to repeat what he has said about his wife, which appeared in a serialised article in the daily ‘Ummat’ of karachi several months ago. He bitterly criticised her wife’s action. Her ‘jihad’ could not do any harm to America but ruined her entire family. I may mention here, Daily Ummat is pro-JI and pro-religion newspaper. How it was practically possible that a housewife and mother of two children will wage ‘lihad’ single-handedly against America, totally disregarding the advice and dictates of her husband (Was’t it itself against the dictates of islam when she disobeyed her husband and ruined her family)?
My comments shouldn’t be misconstrued for justifying the sentence. I totally disprove the sentence and bitterly criticise the american-style justice. Recommend

So is she guilty of killing 4 us army soldiers and 2 fbi agents or is she innocent.
Lets think about it for a second without compassion for her
Scenario 1
US does not just harass every pakistani women who works as a doctor helping people and ship her to Gitmo. Or does it, if it does than I’d have to ask why??? What purpose would US have for hunting a pakistani scientist who studied in US? Did she have any nuclear secrets? None that we know of. Was she in some top secret torture program? I doubt it.
Scenario 2
She did exactly what she was accused of and well it might be an accident or mis understanding whatever. Bottom line shes guilty and even if US had to hatch out fake witnesses to convict her hardly matters. No one would go to so much trouble just to get her!

Why doesn’t her mom go to US. I’m sure they can have a heart to heart and ask her if shes guilty if so there is no way US is letting someone of the hook for killing there people. Wouldn’t we do the same, no we would probably torture the indian girl to death if accused of killing pakistani forces.

We are not trying to prove her innocence anymore because in the back of our minds we know she’s guilty yet we try to cover it up with anger and rage towards a foreign nation who has done nothing except help us in these long years.

My opinion she deserves it, it’ll teach a lesson to the rest not to mess with our Pakistan’s image.(If it has one anymore)
And please don’t call her Pakistan’s daughter thats ridiculous what has she done in the past to uplift Pakistan’s image ? I mean what has she done that has not benefited her in anyway but for Pakistan? NOTHINGRecommend

shame on zionist talibans and zionist alqaeda for killing innocent peopleRecommend

Excellent verdict. World at large is a better place with her behind the bars.

The less of the militant minds we have in Pakistan, the better.

Farewell Aafia..Recommend

allah knows best.. we should make dua 4 her. the US Wil get hardship pain n nothing but shame, that day will come by allah’s will.
she is our sister,who is being tortured,abused,raped,left naked, the US DISCUST ME. 9/11 was done by terrorist i agree but u know who dai wa?… George BUSH,THE WHITE HOUSE,CLINTON and many more. please watch THE ARRIVALZ it will open ur eyes. free palestine.Recommend

This is completely insane. How many afghans and iraqis take potshots at american troops every day? How many of them are taken off to the US and then sentenced to 86 years in Jail. Shameful that the great super power could not catch osama or omar and has only the might to convict a frail woman who killed or injured exactly how many people? ZERO.Recommend

We actually dont want here freed. If most pakistanis boycotted out governmnent and said we will block all roads in Pakistan until Pakistani goverment forces US to release her by stopping all us logistical support she would be free in a jiffy.

I think we should block all high ways in a organized manner untill she is free.Recommend

Aafia Siddiqui is clearly guilty. She is no innocent. Most of the people protesting in Pakistan simply don’t even know the true story. I don’t see how burning tyres and American flag will bring awareness to this issue.

There is so much evidence against her. She should be sentenced to death. She is given life-time imprisonment on humanitarian basis.

As a Muslim and Pakistani, I am ashamed that people like Aafia are also citizen of our great country.

To her supporters, don’t worry, America is going to hand her over to Pakistani authorities in few months so she can complete here sentence in Pakistan prison where her family can visit her from time-to-time.

Oh and when she is handed over to Pakistan in few months, don’t call it a victory for Islam, this is a normal process of prisoners being returned to their home country on humanitarian basis.

Shame on us for simply supporting this without even understanding the true story behind this issue.

May Allah Bless Pakistan, Amen.Recommend

American can now only dream of there being no anti-American sentiment in Pakistan!Recommend

Problem with Aafia is (and why Pakistan couldnt get her back) she is an american citizen .. Extradition can’t work .. Plus if she behaves nicely (unlike how she behaved in court) she would at most be in prison for 7 to 10 years .. Jamaat-e-Islami should get a life btw, they have pushed her to an 86 year term.Recommend

The decision has come from American courts not from the Sharief courts in Pakistan. One has to respect the court decision, though I believe 86 year is a bit harsh. Punishment is accumulative of 7 different cases. She has right to apeal.Recommend

May Allah bless Dr. Aafia with the best in this life and hereafter. Cursed be those who were involved in her arrest in Pakistan and handing her over to Americans without any proof. Cursed be those who have framed her in this case and done gross injustice. This is a slap on the face of Pakistan and Pakistanis. For as long as we will have weak, illegitimate, characterless and faithless leaders we will be subjected to tyranny. We need a revolution which will slaughter the current breed of leaders and politicians right on the road so they can be made an example for generations to come. Recommend

This sentence is too high and definately carries the impression of the extreme inside hatred these people have against muslims. I wonder if they would have inflicted such a harsh punishment against any jew or christian.

To escape the negative fallout the American Govt must transfer Aafia to Pakistan as they have done in case of other Guntanamo Prisoners.Recommend

What is the problem of this Americans,,they don’t even know know how to respect Dr. Aafia..Recommend

Can anyone tell me, how many actual years, is Aaafia going to spend, behind the bars?Recommend

Riots in Pakistan and loss of financial dollars by tearing down buildings locally? How does that help the cause? How about for a second we think about the domestic women in the country who are being nailed down in torture jail cells. Speak for peace in country and no hypocrisy.Recommend

While I am not sure whether the cause of justice has been served or not with this verdict. What is surprising is the level of confusion that has permeated this case thorughout. The fact is clear that Dr. Aafia was arrested from Afghanistan and not Pakistan so the Govt. never sold her off. Why was she there in the first place? What was a so-called celebrated, foreign educated neuroscientist living with her kids in Talibanized Afghanistan? Her Ex-Husband has made less than flattering remarks about her mental state. Then there is the question of what was she doing at the venue of a meeting of armed American troops and her own admission in court that she would be in her own words “be sent to a secret prison” why did she feel that if she was not involved in anything non-kosher. Similarly in the case of her missing children, when the elder son was left outside the sister’s house she deined that he was Aafia’s son, then newstickers gave her sister’s statement as “we don’t know who the boy is but we will raise him as our own” now news media has started refering to the boy as Dr. Aafia’s son.

I am not suggesting all of the above implicitly spells out her guilt, all I am saying is that there is more to this case than the details that we are led to believe. Then ofcourse there is the possibility of an American government cover-up in this whole issue. The trouble we are now sitting on a explosive situation which can spiral out to become a major law and order problem without people knowing the whole truth or all the facts.

The reality is that Dr. Aafia is just one Pakistani amongst many that are in a variety of US and International prisons, the Government needs to have a professional diplomatic outlook that respects the rights of citizens overseas and helps them get the required legal and consular assistance. This has unfortunately not happened in this case and has greatly aggratved the situation.Recommend

Dr Aafia should come out with a believable story to the emotional Pakistanies.
In first place she can’t be so innocent that she was picked up in Pakistan, unnecessarily taken to Afghanistan and then transported to USA. Pakistan has a female population of over 100 million. Why on God’s earth she was picked up amonst such a large population. Recommend

Wikipedia
In May 2002, the FBI questioned Siddiqui and her husband regarding their purchase over the internet of $10,000 worth of night vision equipment, body armor, and military manuals including The Anarchist’s Arsenal, Fugitive, Advanced Fugitive, and How to Make C-4. Khan claimed that these were for hunting and camping expeditions. On June 26, 2002, the couple and their children returned to PakistanRecommend

I think Dr. Aafia is a innocent pakistani. And everybody know that America want to destroy
all Muslims in the world. At this time, I request to all Muslims that everybody pray for Dr. Aafia
because Allah is Beneficent and Merciful and He is Justice.Recommend

Media is certainly one of the most important institutions in our country; parents must always allow their children to choose their career and media is still expanding so a career in media is not a bad option.Recommend

She is a new born baby whom someone somewhere picked up and later took her to Amreeeqa. Her parents never knew when this toddler opened the main gate of her house and sneaked out. A very innocent family background so we must now come out and start burning what ever comes in our way as we usually do. We must first start burning all motor cycles, private and government properties and in the last start bombing each other out of our wits and wisdom.Recommend

We should put an American behind bars, accuse that person of illicit activities, and sentence that person to 87 years. Recommend

I am not sure whether she is innocent or not but my only concern is if an American commit some crime against Pakistan will he/she be punished in our court? I think all of us know the answer.Recommend

The 86 years in prison sentence is quite preposterous, as is the “Al Qaeda Lady” appellation the U.S. authorities have coined for her. And, actually, that sentence is quite anti-American. After “Guantanamo, Abu Graib, and the news last week that American soldiers in Afghanistan were killing Afghan civilians “for sport,” now our judicial system has swatted Siddiqui, a “fly” Pakistani hater of Americans, with a sledgehammer! Worse yet, we are making headlines with it as if “justice was done,” and claiming the “high morale ground. But is it?

First, as a former army investigating officer, this question comes to mind: Why a loaded rifle was left next to a hostile person that was being investigated? Wasn’t this “a set-up” to have the person grab the rifle and give interrogators a reason to charge her with “attempted murder?”
Then, there is this question: She is married to a relative of a former Al Qaeda member, but does this make her “an Al Qaeda Lady?” If my daughter gets married with a gang member, does that make me “a gang-banger?” Does she hates Americans? Sure, who doesn’t in Pakistan? Even
people who become instant millionaires cooperating in our war with us hate us, and they will stamp us in the back when they get a chance! They don’t like us, but they like to make riches as our stooges. But they feel guilty as Pakistanis, and sinners as Muslims, and they will stamp us in the back to attain ablution with their faith!

A Few weeks ago, British prime minister David Cameron accused Pakistani officials for not being real friends, a.k.a. ally backstabbers! Sure they are. And if we do such stupids things as giving Siddique a sentence similar to that of the infamous Carlos “the Jackal” terrorist, for an “attempted murder charge” that looks suspicious, they will hate us more! I hope David Cameron call Obama and tell him to wise up.

Finally, the Inter Service Intelligence, also known as ISI, factor. It is the core of the Pakistani establishment. And we suspect that they hate us, and that actually work against us behind our backs in the war in Afghanistan. They sure do. And when we grab a distraught Pakistani woman, crown her with “the Al Qaeda Lady” label, and treat her like a 9/11 bomber, there is no doubt they will hate us more, because they are above all Pakistanis. And I have no doubt that, in their own way, they will avenge the injustice to Aafia Siddiqui. The Pakistani prime minister Mr. Gilani has already expressed his outrage in order to calm down the Pakistanis.

Let’s not, therefore, celebrate the 86 years prison term for Siddique. We have just shot our selves in the foot, and I have no doubt the sentence will be reversed or thrown out. The sentence is highly detrimental to bigger American interests, and it may cost American lives in the long term.
Smashing a fly with a sledgehammer may make us feel good now, but “justice,” like every story, has always two sides! Nikos Retsos, retired professorRecommend

I am not sure if she is guilty or not. The fuss we make about her is out of proportion. Hundreds of our citizens are missing and one hopes we generate the same steam to recover them.Recommend

How come nobody talks of hundreds of fellow Pakistanis sold to the Americans by the Musharaff regime? Mushy had proudly stated in his autobiography that he sold Pakistani members of Al-Qaeda for $500 per head. Recommend

This is a issue of justice vs injustice so please don’t make it a religious issue.Afia is not only a Pakistani she is also an American citizen.How many of all these religious zealots has done any research on the issue be jumping into conclusions that Afia was innocent.There is no place for emotionalism and populism when in come to judiciary decisions in USA.Recommend

“Dr Aafia sentenced to 86 years in prison”

Good. I hope this is enough time for her to contemplate her past ugly deeds and hope she will be a changed person when she comes out after 86 years. Recommend

Salaams to everybody,
Aafia, the Muslim community in Durban daily make dua for you.
Remember Allah and Allah alone is your protector.

Remember we love you.

From Ahmed n familyRecommend

BLAMED FOR NOTHING?
The most saddening news yesterday was ''Dr.Afia Siddiqui sentenced to be locked behind the bars for 86 years.''
She is trialled the American court.According to the media sources she has been charged in 7 different cases.It was claimed of her that she was a member of Al Qaeda group,attempted to fire at the American army personnels and that she was found with explosives outside a compound in Ghazni.
The world is not shown any proof of any of the allegations against her.This case is entirely an enigma.Where does the justice lie in sending her for life prison for nothing?Has she been a killer?Or has she done something that America doesn't dare to disclose?Was she an American ally earlier?Is she a privy to something that the world ought not know?There are hundreds of such questions which need to be answered.
This is totally a violation of the human rights.American state is violating human rights for years in many of the muslim countries in the world.How can this country talk of justice?Why is the world closing its eyes on this inhuman act?This is certainly a war against Islam nor against terrorism.
Isn't there any court in this world where American court could be sued for its biased decision?
Oh world! Oh the flag-lifters of human rights!Oh the true fighters of terrorism! come forward,have courage and rid this world of such gruesome acts.
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How do you know this TL? based on american given witnesses and stuff? what a jokeRecommend

It is great non-sense to talk about her husband, he remained mum for years and even did not talk about his own children, neither he went to any police station. When it was exposed that Dr. Aafia is in prison and peoples started to know about his own character, so for removing his own name from list he used venue to issue a statemnt against his wife. Whereas he enjoyed all facilities, benefits and hospitality of his wife when he was immgrated to US.
There are certain peoples who did not want release of Aafia and one ambassador wrote 159 pages letter to courts that court referenced.
She did nothing wrong, US army persons shot and hurt her, none of american was hurt. Then sentence of 86 years is laughing on a woman kidnapped with children. Shame on bogus american justice system and Islamophobic judge.
It is 100% matter of hate against Muslims and in words of George W Bush crusade against Islam. After 911 to 2007 there was no TTP or Taliban in Pakistan, there no Al Qaida exists, it is a drama of occupying resources of Muslim countries. When Halako Khan entered Baghdad so gates were opened by Ibn Alqami secretly, after victory Halako killed Ibn Alqami by saying that this person was not faithful to his own nation than I can not trust him.
Some Pakistani’s that are showing more faithfulness with their king would meet fate of Ibn Alqami, Mir Jaffer, Mir Sadiq or Meromal.Recommend

Concerned Omega i agree with u 110%.Recommend