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USA: Pakistan takes up issue of Aafia’s deteriorating health with US
27-08-2008
WASHINGTON, (APP): The Pakistani Embassy in Washington has conveyed its concern to the United States on the media reports about detained Pakistani neuroscientist Ms.Aafia Siddiqui’s worsening health condition in the detention centre and provision of inadequate medical care.
Under instructions of Ambassador Husain Haqqani, the embassy has once again asked the US government to hand over the custody of her three children to Pakistan in case they are in the U.S. custody.
Dr Aafia Siddiqui, a 36-year old Pakistani citizen is in a detention center in New York, where she is facing charges of attempted attack on U.S. officials while in custody in Afghanistan. She is suffering from bullet wounds and on Tuesday her lawyer made a fervent plea to U.S. authorities to immediately shift her client to a hospital in view of her deteriorating state of health.
According to an embassy official, the US government has further been urged that necessary steps be taken for her immediate transfer to a hospital for proper medical treatment and stopping the humiliating body searches of the detainee before and after visits of her lawyers and the embassy officials.
Ms Siddiqui’s condition has significantly deteriorated since August four when she was brought to New York, her lawyer Elizabeth Fink told a press conference..
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