Pak terror suspect Aafia says one of the interrogators was Indian Afghanistan SunFriday 16th January, 2009 (ANI)
Islamabad, Jan 16 : Pakistani "terror suspect" Dr Aafia Siddiqui, who is on trial in the United States, has alleged that one of the interrogators at the Bagram Air Force base in Afghanistan was an Indian. According to a report prepared by the by Pakistan Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Dr Aafia has narrated her entire story to a delegation of the committee that went to see her, telling them how she was arrested from Pakistan and later shifted to Bagram. The delegation headed by Mushahid Hussain Syed visited the US in October 2008, and held a meeting with the detained Pakistani scientist. The report said that Aafia alleged that one of the interrogators in Bagram was an Indian - who was her contemporary at MIT and was interested in her research work. She was repeatedly asked to do similar research for the 'interrogator countries'. Her interrogators in Afghanistan spoke in American accent and Hindi. Dr Aafia also did not disclose the questions asked by the interrogators; the Daily Times quoted the report, as saying. Dr Aafia told the senators that she was travelling in a taxi to her maternal uncle's house when she was arrested, and she later found that she had been taken to Afghanistan. She did not know where she was taken, as she had problem recollecting and reconciling dates and places. The report said that in Bagram, Aafia was 'tortured', but the Afghans did not 'humiliate' her. Her three children - two sons and a daughter - were taken away from her, and she was told her children would be returned only if she confessed to meeting certain people. Dr Aafia, however, did not disclose the names of the people in question. She feared that this forced confession could go against her in Pakistan. She also feared that her third child, named Suleman, might have been killed. Referring to the incident which became a basis for the institution of a case against her in the US, she said that at the detention centre, she got up and heard a US soldier shouting 'she is loose' - and a US captain fired at her, injuring her abdomen. She fell to the ground and when she regained consciousness, she heard one of the soldiers say 'we could lose our jobs'. In the US court, she is charged with pulling a gun at a uniformed officer. Aafia denies that charge. The prosecutors deny that she was fired at, and to conceal the facts "a surgery was performed on me".
Islamabad, Jan 16 : Pakistani "terror suspect" Dr Aafia Siddiqui, who is on trial in the United States, has alleged that one of the interrogators at the Bagram Air Force base in Afghanistan was an Indian. According to a report prepared by the by Pakistan Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Dr Aafia has narrated her entire story to a delegation of the committee that went to see her, telling them how she was arrested from Pakistan and later shifted to Bagram. The delegation headed by Mushahid Hussain Syed visited the US in October 2008, and held a meeting with the detained Pakistani scientist. The report said that Aafia alleged that one of the interrogators in Bagram was an Indian - who was her contemporary at MIT and was interested in her research work. She was repeatedly asked to do similar research for the 'interrogator countries'. Her interrogators in Afghanistan spoke in American accent and Hindi. Dr Aafia also did not disclose the questions asked by the interrogators; the Daily Times quoted the report, as saying. Dr Aafia told the senators that she was travelling in a taxi to her maternal uncle's house when she was arrested, and she later found that she had been taken to Afghanistan. She did not know where she was taken, as she had problem recollecting and reconciling dates and places. The report said that in Bagram, Aafia was 'tortured', but the Afghans did not 'humiliate' her. Her three children - two sons and a daughter - were taken away from her, and she was told her children would be returned only if she confessed to meeting certain people. Dr Aafia, however, did not disclose the names of the people in question. She feared that this forced confession could go against her in Pakistan. She also feared that her third child, named Suleman, might have been killed. Referring to the incident which became a basis for the institution of a case against her in the US, she said that at the detention centre, she got up and heard a US soldier shouting 'she is loose' - and a US captain fired at her, injuring her abdomen. She fell to the ground and when she regained consciousness, she heard one of the soldiers say 'we could lose our jobs'. In the US court, she is charged with pulling a gun at a uniformed officer. Aafia denies that charge. The prosecutors deny that she was fired at, and to conceal the facts "a surgery was performed on me".
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