All flavors of political parties of Pakistan, ranging from PTI to PML-N to MQM have pronounced Aafia Siddiqui, Daughter of the Nation. That makes our current Prime Minister, Mian Nawaz Shareef, her father today.
Geneva Convention, Article 12: Prisoners of war are in the hands of the Enemy Power, but not of the individuals or military units who have captured them. Irrespective of the individual responsibilities that may exist, the Detaining Power is responsible for the treatment given to them.
November 2011: Fouzia Siddiqui, sister of Aafia Siddiqui, desperately wrote the following lines to various social media forums, ‘The Federal Medical Center prison warden has called me and reported that Aafia Siddiqui has just undergone a forced abortion after a rape. She is bleeding profusely, as I write, and it is not known whether she will survive it or not…’
Aafia Siddiqui is one among the thousands of victims of the so-called war-on-terror by America. However, the case of Aafia Siddiqui stands out because of the extraordinary level of torture surrounding her case, such that, even her children were not condescended any reprieve from detention and torture.
Barack Obama and his comrades are the elected representatives of America since 2007. They were the ones in power of America.
Judging by the script of the Geneva Convention, Barack Obama and his comrades are responsible for the treatment meted out to all the prisoners of America’s war-of-terror.
In a world speaking profoundly for human rights and particularly women’s rights, rape is the first and surest treatment given to female captives. Aafia Siddiqui was no exception. Her rape ordeal began in Afghanistan all the way to New York through till Texas even today.
Call me dumb but it is beyond my utmost understanding how Pervaiz Musharraf and his comrades could have the heart and mind to handover a female along with her children to an interrogation power. But then, Pervaiz Musharraf is a criminal criminal…
What about Mian Nawaz Shareef?
How can he receive social calls from his daughter’s rapists and talk to them cordially? How can he smile at his daughter’s rapists? How can he shake hands with his daughter’s rapists? How can he accept hospitality from his daughter’s rapists? How can he enjoy walking the red carpet in the land of the rapists? How can he enjoy teas and dinners with his daughter’s rapists? How can he invite them to daal and qeema?
No doubt that the All Saints Church bombing on 22 September, 2013 in Pakistan was a massive tragedy, but is it logical to set the Pakistani flag at half mast for three days in its reaction? If it is logical, then the Pakistani flag should continuously be at half mast, because we have been ravaged with big and small explosions across Pakistan since the last thirteen years amounting to a death toll of fifty thousand so far.
In my eyes, if anything today calls for the Pakistani flag to be at half mast, it is the imprisonment of the daughter of the nation in America. Her father, Mian Nawaz Shareef, should confront them in all seriousness for an immediate release, instead of wooing the rapists of his daughter, Aafia Siddiqui.
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