*ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court adjourned on Monday the hearing of a petitionseeking repatriation of Dr Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani scientist jailed inthe United States, for an indefinite period.*
A bench of the apex court, headed by Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed, issueddirectives for merging the petition with the cases of other Pakistaninationals languishing in foreign jails.
Over the course of the hearing, a government lawyer informed the bench thata counselor meets Ms Siddiqui every three months.
Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed asked the counsel to see whether Dr Aafia cancomplete her sentence in Pakistan after her repatriation from the US.
It is noteworthy that Dr Aafia Siddiqui had written a letter to PrimeMinister Imran Khan last year, seeking his assistance in ensuring herrelease from the US prison
Read Top Stories
Pakistan’s consul general in Houston met Dr. Aafia at the prison where shehanded him over the letter addressed to Mr. Khan.
‘I want to get out of the prison, as my imprisonment in the US jail isillegal,” she wrote in the letter. She said she always considered ImranKhan as one of her biggest heroes. ‘Mr Khan had supported me in the pastalso,” she added.
Dr. Aafia also wrote that Imran Khan should be careful about ‘munafiq’around him.
