Lawyers demand Aafia repatriation

LAHORE - PML-N lawyers have called for immediate extradition of Dr Aafia Siddiqui from America and asked the government to employ every means in this direction.

The PML(N) Lawyers Forum at the GPO Chowk outside the LHC premises here Friday held a demonstration. Led by MNA Ch Naseer Ahmad Bhutta, Khwaja Mahmood Ahmad, Wali Muhammad Khan, Ghulam Haider Alghazali and Waseem Butt and lawyers chanted slogans for the release of Dr Aasfia and her two children who were picked up in 2005 from Karachi and later on handed over to the American authorities in Afghanistan. Dr Aafia, who earlier has been shifted to the Texas Psychological facility for treatment was allowed to meet a Pakistani team led by Senator Mushahid Hussain during which she had pleaded for not being guilty in the accusations levelled by the American agencies of firing at US marines.

Carrying placards, banners and flags, the protesting PML(N) lawyers stayed at the Chowk for about two hours during which Ch Naseer Ahmad Bhutta, Khwaja Mahmood and others also spoke.