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Pakistan's interim government is engaged in finalizing legal formalities to secure the repatriation of its prisoners languishing for years in jail outside the country. Islamabad is considering to ratify the Council of European Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons which would help the country to legally seek the repatriation of Pakistani prisoners from abroad particularly from the US.
Continuing public protests against the US for sentencing and jailing Pakistani citizen Dr Aafia Siddiqi on the charges of terrorism, is one of the main reasons for Islamabads decision to ratify European Convention to which Washington is also party.
Dr. Aafia was allegedly kidnapped by Pakistani intelligence agencies in 2003 along with her three children and handed over to the US. She was allegedly tortured and raped at Bagram prison by US agents near Kabul before her trial in 2010 by a New York Court which sentenced her for 86 behind bars for attempting to kill CIA agents during her detention in Afghanistan.
An estimated 10,1000 Pakistanis are alleged to have been kidnapped by the country's intelligence agencies. And many among them were illegally handed over to the US.
Pakistan has a strong leverage upon US -----stopping the NATO supply line and withholding the intelligence in so-called war on terror could pressure Washington to repatriate Dr Aafia Siddiqi. Analysts say, the government of incoming Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif needs a strong political will to push its agenda to bring back Pakistanis home from the US custody.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/0...on-to-secure-release-of-its-citizens-from-us/
Continuing public protests against the US for sentencing and jailing Pakistani citizen Dr Aafia Siddiqi on the charges of terrorism, is one of the main reasons for Islamabads decision to ratify European Convention to which Washington is also party.
Dr. Aafia was allegedly kidnapped by Pakistani intelligence agencies in 2003 along with her three children and handed over to the US. She was allegedly tortured and raped at Bagram prison by US agents near Kabul before her trial in 2010 by a New York Court which sentenced her for 86 behind bars for attempting to kill CIA agents during her detention in Afghanistan.
An estimated 10,1000 Pakistanis are alleged to have been kidnapped by the country's intelligence agencies. And many among them were illegally handed over to the US.
Pakistan has a strong leverage upon US -----stopping the NATO supply line and withholding the intelligence in so-called war on terror could pressure Washington to repatriate Dr Aafia Siddiqi. Analysts say, the government of incoming Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif needs a strong political will to push its agenda to bring back Pakistanis home from the US custody.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/0...on-to-secure-release-of-its-citizens-from-us/
