Dr Fowzia Siddiqui responds over reports of sister Dr Aafia Siddiqui refusal to come back to Pakistan

Dr Fowzia Siddiqui responds over reports of sister Dr Aafia Siddiqui refusal to come back to Pakistan

KARACHI - *Dr Fowzia Siddiqui responds over reports of sister Dr Aafia Siddiqui refusal to come back to Pakistan.*

Dr Fowzia Siddiqui has said that her sister, Dr Aafia Siddiqui, wants to return home and a recent statement of Foreign Office (FO) spokesman Dr Muhammad Faisal seems to be based on some misunderstandings.

In a statement on Wednesday, she said that according to her knowledge, Pakistani Counsel General Ayesha Farooqui had met Dr Aafia a few days back and Dr Aafia had told her that she wanted to return home.

She had also requested Prime Minister Imran Khan to play his role so that she could come out of this jail, where she faces both physical and sexual abuse.

Dr Fowzia said that recently the government circles had shared a letter of Dr Aafia with media addressed to PM Imran in which she had called him ‘her hero’ and requested him to help in her repatriation as she was braving inhuman conditions in the US jail.

She said that in these circumstances the statement of Dr Faisal seems to be based on misunderstandings and it is against realities.