Mystery still shrouds Dr Afia's whereabouts

 Relatives, LEA official issue contradictory statements; FBI website shows her as absconder

 KARACHI - Despite her disappearance in 2003 in connection with the deadly attacks in the United States on September 9 2001, the name of Dr Afia Siddiqui, the wife of Abu Ammar, Ali bin Abdul Aziz, who was booked among four plotters of the incident, is still present as an absconder on the website of Federal Investigation Bureau (FBI) and the agency is seeking information about her to probe the tragedy.

Afia was disappeared from Karachi along with her three children after a month of the arrest of Khalid Sheikh Muhammad (KSM) in March 2003 from Rawalpindi.

She had doctoral degree in neurology from the MIT University, in Boston, United States. Afia, a resident of Gulshan-e-Iqbal, had reportedly been picked up by intelligence agencies on March 30 when she was on the way in cab to catch a flight for Rawalpindi but never reached the airport.

Siddiqui was allegedly handed over to the Americans who kept her detained at Bagram prison in Afghanistan but the official website of FBI still shows her an absconder in connection with the 9/11 attacks and wanted her for interrogation about her affiliation with Al-Qaeda and KSM.