Topic: Aafia Siddiqui

Swiss couple kidnapped in Pakistan appear in videos

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - A Swiss couple abducted in July from Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province by the Pakistani Taliban appeared in two videos released Tuesday, pleading for their lives.Pakistan's Taliban have claimed responsibility for kidnapping the couple who ...

Pakistan Taliban say they have Swiss hostages

Pakistan Taliban militants on Friday said they are holding a Swiss couple kidnapped a month ago while on holiday in the remote province of Baluchistan.Wali-ur Rehman, deputy head of the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), did not provide proof that the group had ...

Aafia Siddiqui

36-year-old MIT graduate Aafia Siddiqui, a former U.S. resident born in Pakistan, was arrested on July 17, 2008 , after being stopped in front of a government building in Afghanistan . Jailed Pakistani a "treasure trove" of information" (August 13, 2008) Siddiqui was ...

Muslims should avenge Pakistani jailed in US: Zawahiri

Zawahiri made the appeal in an audio message entitled "Who Will Avenge the Scientist Aafia Siddiqui," which was released on jihadist forums, the US-based SITE Intelligence Group said.He promised "to attack ... (Americans) as long as they attack" Muslims and said "the ...

Qaeda's Zawahri urges revenge over jailed scientist

DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's No. 2, in a recording posted on the internet, has called for retaliation against the United States for sentencing a female Pakistani neuroscientist to life in prison for shooting at FBI agents and soldiers.Aafia Siddiqui, 38 ...
Al-Qaida's No. 2 vows revenge over Pakistani female scientist jailed in the USAl-Qaida's No. 2 in a message released Thursday vowed revenge on the United States over an 86-year jail sentence handed down in September to a Pakistani woman convicted ...
Dr Aafia Siddiqui a Pakistani Ph.D having 144 hounrary degrees & cerificates in neurology from different institutes of the world, the only neurologist in the world who got the hounrary Ph.D from Harward University, A hafiz e Quran(the one who ...

Behind The Alerts, The Unknowns

Terrorism "alerts" like the one issued by the State Department last weekend for travel to Europe tend to be vague. Intelligence officials are still clammed up tight about details of the terrorism threat in Europe. Here's what's obvious to all ...

Pakistan erupts over US scientist verdict

Pakistani activists poured into the streets on Friday shouting "Death to America" and burning effigies of President Barack Obama after a US court jailed a woman scientist for 86 years.In a case that has been condemned across the nuclear-armed Muslim nation ...

Pakistan vows to repatriate jailed scientist

MULTAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan vowed on Friday to repatriate a scientist sentenced to an effective life term in the United States as hundreds of people protested against the ruling, denouncing their government and its ally Washington.Many in Pakistan, a key U ...