Rehman said that Pakistan will continue to ensure that none of its citizens living abroad are deprived of their rights.
Rehman told Foster that the government of Pakistan was engaging a team of three attorneys at a considerable expense to provide the best possible legal defense for Dr Aafia.
In the meeting, Foster apprised Rehman of Dr Aafia’s situation and also discussed options to ease her conditions of incarceration. Foster also discussed Dr Aafia’s eventual repatriation to Pakistan.
The ambassador informed Foster that the Pakistani Embassy and Pakistan’s Consulate General in Houston were in contact with the authorities of FMC Carswell prison to provide Dr Aafia appropriate medical care.
Rehman said that the embassy also helped reestablishing telephonic contact between Dr Aafia and her family in Karachi and also interceded on her behalf to try to ensure that her various other concerns, including those relating to her health, were addressed.
She said, “The Embassy will continue to play its role while also exploring options to facilitate Dr Aafia repatriation". The Ambassador also assured Foster that she intended to visit Texas and meet Dr Aafia.
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I do not know to whom govt is trying to fool,they have not done anything for her in the past.She is on her own and she will be.Allah will definitely pave a way for her bcoz she is innocent.
Justice Served........A guy from US Army Killed 24 innocent Iraqis is not going to spent a single day in confinement after plea guilty & other women who didnot killed anyone from US Army is going to spend life-time in prison.....both decisions by US Courts......
but what about aasia bibi first?
Sherry!US is not Pakistan where Raymond Davis was sent home without trial.........please don't give false hopes to poor lady.
@DevilHunterX: Good question---how about it?
@shazada zahid mahmoud loan: No, it's not the real issue for us in Pakistan. An American citizen must be tried and punished under the American laws,period. If any one feels aggrieved, should go and fight for his ister in her country, she broke her relationship with us and Pakistan when abandoned us for the U.S. Citizenship and opted for terrorism in place of peaceful means to protest her country's excesses.
Siddiqui is a convicted felon serving time in the USA -- there are no treaties/agreements between USA/Pakistan that would permit her to serve her time in Pakistan. Rehman statement is for public consumption and has no real merit.
How about protecting the rights of Pakistani citizens living in Pakistan “very seriously” first?
Frist of all, let us get the real facts as to how Afia vanished from Pakistan and appeared in Afghanistan. Who handed her over to US / Afghanistan? Or, did the US kidnap her from Pakistan? Why the Government or the Establishment is coming up with an official version on these facts? What does Afia say about all these? May be, one day, we shall hear it from Mansor Izaz.