The government has failed to convince U.S. leadership to free Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, who has been imprisoned in the United States since 2008, according to Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar.
Speaking at the international conference “China 75: A Journey of Development, Transformation, and Global Leadership” on Tuesday, Dar—who is also the foreign minister—made these statements.
The federal government’s attempts to convince the American leadership to pardon Siddiqui “could not bear fruit,” he noted.
According to him, US President Joe Biden received a letter from Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif asking him to pardon Dr. Aafia on humanitarian grounds because “US presidents usually grant certain pardons before relinquishing the office.”
