MPA Basma MPA Basma Chaudhary filed the resolution to free Siddiqui, who has been detained in the United States.
“Aafia Siddiqui’s lawyer has disclosed that not only physical but also sexual violence has been inflicted on her while mental pressure has also been put on her to turn her away from her religion,” the resolution’s text continued.
The resolution required that real, comprehensive efforts be made to bring her back to the nation, and that these efforts be implemented in both words and deeds.
The Compassionate Release Act states that she should be released on humanitarian grounds due to her deteriorating physical and mental health…
The resolution stated that she had been wrongfully detained for twenty years and that she was ill, stressing the need for the Pakistani prime minister to write to the US president asking for a humane release and a pardon.