Mystery still shrouds Dr Afia's whereabouts

According to the reports published in international media, Afia had allegedly provided assistance to KSM to accomplish the attacks. However, the family of her ex-husband, on condition of anonymity, told that she was a pious and practicing Muslim woman and used to distribute Quran and other religious books to prisoners and seminaries. They further told that she had been living with her husband, Amjad Khan, and two children, including son Muhammad and daughter Mariym, in the US for several years but their marriage had broken before a week of the birth of their third child. The cause of divorce remained mysterious because the families of both accused each other as religiously radical. The newly born baby was just six months old when Afia went missing while Abu Khalid, the nephew of the KSM, told The Nation that Afia got her second marriage with Ali Bin Abdul Aziz, brother of Khalid.

He further said that he was picked up by law-enforcement agencies (LEA) from Karachi and detained at Bagram Jail for three years when the marriage took place adding that he never heard the screams of a woman in the prison.

Dr. Fauzia, a neurosurgeon and sister of Afia, said that she did not know about the second marriage of Afia but Muhammad Hussain, an uncle of KSM, reaffirmed that she had married for a second time and said that KSM and his sister Mariym Bibi arranged the ceremony at Hub Chowki. He further said that Aziz and Afia were not satisfied from their marriage and it close to end when she disappeared.