A mockery of justice

"    Towards the end of 2007 Aafia was handed over by ISI to FIA Lahore. Here she was given still better treatment. From time to time she was allowed to go outside her FIA jail in a black burqa with the condition to arrange to proceed to Afghanistan at her own.

"    The Pakistani agencies were also kind enough to issue Aafia a fake national identity card (NIC) with a photo of her changed face but with a new name (possibly Saliha) and with a fake address of Karachi. The said NIC has been personally seen by the author of these lines in possession of Aafia on January 23,.2008 in Islamabad when she, all of a sudden, visited his house in Sector F- 7/1 in a black burqa. The Pakistani agencies were also kind enough to give a proper amount of money to Aafia to meet her travelling and hotel expenses. She also carried a quite large black bag nearly half full of mainly books. This very hand bag was later 'converted' by Afghan police and FBI 'experts' in Ghazni, Afghanistan on July 18, 2008, into a bag full of explosive material which was claimed to be exploded by Aafia in a suicidal attack in Ghazni by her own son, Muhammad Ahmad.

"    According to the pre-set plan of FBI/FIA the poor and well trapped Aafia arrived in Kabul from Lahore in the second week of July 2008 apparently with the assistance of FBI/FIA agents. The FBI agent (a Pakistani) disguised as Taliban agent at Kabul promised Aafia the delivery of Master Muhammad Ahmed to her at Ghazni and advised her to proceed to the Talibans of Ghazni province where she and her son Ahmad could be more safe. And on her arrival in Ghazni on July 16, 2008, the police chief of Ghazni was telephonically informed by an unknown person that a dangerous foreign lady has arrived in Ghazni with the intention of destroying Ghazni and its inhabitants. The whereabouts of the lady were also given in detail. The police went out and easily captured the 'bomber lady'. The bomber lady and the young boy (brought by US soldiers from Kabul the same day) were produced in a media briefing by the police chief on July 18, 2008. But the chief who opted to speak in Pashto rather than Persian or English, so that Aafia and her son Ahmed were not able to know as to what he was saying about them.

"    Next day five US army officials including the Pakistani lady rushed to the Ghazni police station, told the police chief that the lady was not Saliha and the boy was not Ali Ihsan rather the lady was Dr Aafia Siddiqi and the boy was her son Ahmed. Just after uttering these words one of the officers opened fire on Aafia without any provocation. He apparently aimed at the breast but the bullets (2 or three) hit her belly. The 'brave' US army officers left the site considering her as dead. But the Afghan police chief and his staff on knowing the reality lifted up the seriously wounded and heavily bleeding Aafia and rushed to the Ghazni hospital where the Afghan doctors worked hard to save her life and by the grace of Allah they were successfully in doing so. However, another version of the story is that Aafia, after being hit by bullets, was shifted by US soldiers to Bagram air base north of Kabul and she was treated there.