ISLAMABAD: The counsel for Dr AQ Khan and detained Pakistani woman in the US Dr Aafia Siddiqui has announced to lodge an FIR against ex-president Pervez Musharraf and the Quaid of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Mian Nawaz Sharif at a police station of Islamabad on Thursday (tomorrow).
Barrister Javed Iqbal Jaffery told The News that Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf had handed over Dr Aafia Siddiqui and many other Pakistanis to the US and he would lodge an FIR against him on 26-02-2009 at 3 pm. He said he knew that the police would not register the FIR against the ex-president but he would move the Islamabad High Court against the refusal of the police, which would order the police to lodge the FIR.
Mian Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)[Former Prime Minister of Pakistan - 1990 - 1993, and 1997 - 1999]
Responding to a question, Jaffery replied: “I am hundred per cent hopeful that the Islamabad High Court would order the police to lodge the FIR against Musharraf.”Regarding Mian Nawaz Sharif, Barrister Jaffery said the Supreme Court was attacked during the Nawaz Sharif tenure. He said though time changes man but how could Nawaz Sharif beat the drum of independent judiciary now.
Mir Aimal Kansi [Former US CIA Agent]
He said he was the counsel for Amil Kansi who was executed in the US after being handed over to the Americans by Nawaz Sharif and said, “I have a bundle of letters of Amil Kansi in which he has alleged that Nawaz Sharif had handed him over to America.”
About Dr Aafia Siddiqui he said, “The Pakistan Embassy just has to write one letter to the International Court of Justice, asking it to shift the case of Dr Aafia from New York to the ICJ as Dr Aafia was a Pakistani citizen and was arrested in Afghanistan and how could she be tried in the US.”
The lawyer added, “The ICJ could never turn down any such application when two countries claim right on same person or thing.” He said had the government of Pakistan written the letter on shifting the case of Dr Aafia Siddiqui to the ICJ in July 2008, the matter would have been different now.
About the humiliation of notorious strip and search meted out to Dr Aafia Siddiqui in a jail in New York and about the release of her pictures on the Youtube website Barrister Jaffery said had Aafia’s case been shifted to the ICJ, no such humiliation could have happened. About lodging of an FIR against Pervez Musharraf, Barrister Jaffery repeatedly said: “Someone has to bell the cat.” He said those responsible for the violation should be brought to justice and if he would not take a step forward, then who else would dare.
About Dr Aafia Siddiqui he said, “The Pakistan Embassy just has to write one letter to the International Court of Justice, asking it to shift the case of Dr Aafia from New York to the ICJ as Dr Aafia was a Pakistani citizen and was arrested in Afghanistan and how could she be tried in the US.”
The lawyer added, “The ICJ could never turn down any such application when two countries claim right on same person or thing.” He said had the government of Pakistan written the letter on shifting the case of Dr Aafia Siddiqui to the ICJ in July 2008, the matter would have been different now.
About the humiliation of notorious strip and search meted out to Dr Aafia Siddiqui in a jail in New York and about the release of her pictures on the Youtube website Barrister Jaffery said had Aafia’s case been shifted to the ICJ, no such humiliation could have happened. About lodging of an FIR against Pervez Musharraf, Barrister Jaffery repeatedly said: “Someone has to bell the cat.” He said those responsible for the violation should be brought to justice and if he would not take a step forward, then who else would dare.
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