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Today, on June 1 which is celebrated in many countries around the world as International Children’s Day, the Justice for Aafia Coalition is asking the Government of Afghanisistan and the US Government to disclose the whereabouts and welfare of Suleman Siddiqui, the seven year old son of Aafia Siddiqui who has been missing since 2003.

Maryam Hassan, founder of JFAC stated “we call upon the UN to instigate a full investigation into the disappearance of Suleman Siddiqui, the youngest child of Aafia Siddiqui. Suleman was last seen when only six months old, when apprehended along with his mother and siblings in Karachi in March 2003. Whilst his elder siblings were eventually recovered, after seven years Suleman’s fate remains unknown, with horrific rumours in circulation that he may have been killed in US custody.” (more…)

President Obama urgently needs to respond to recent developments in Pakistan relating to the missing children of jailed Pakistani national, Dr. Aafia Siddiqi, specifically, we need to know what US records reveal about the whereabouts of Dr. Aafia Siddiqi and her children between 2003 and 2008?

A week ago unidentified men on Sunday brought a 12-year-old girl to the home Dr. Fauzia Siddiqi in Karachi claiming that she is Maryam Khan the daughter of Dr. Aafia Siddiqi.

Aafia Siddiqui’s lawyers maintain that she was abducted by the Pakistani and US agents along with her three children in 2003 and rendered to Afghanistan where she was detained by American forces for over five years. Siddiqui claims she was abused, raped and tortured throughout her detention.

Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on yesterday that a DNA test has now positively proved that Maryam Khan Dr. Fauzia Siddiqi in Karachi is the biological daughter of Aafia Siddiqui’s former husband, Dr Amjad Khan. (more…)

There have been recent shocking revelations about what happened to Aafia Siddiqui while she was in secret US custody show that she was subject to brutal and inhuman treatment.

Aafia has become a ’cause celebre’ in Pakistan since the travesty of justice during a political show trial in the US where she was charged and convicted of attempting to kill FBI Officers and Us military personnel during a bizarre incident in Ghazni in Afghanistan where Aafia was the only one who got shot.

There have been several mass demonstrations in Pakistans main cities, her case is supported by many public figures and political parties who charge the US with kidnapping Aafia and her three children from Pakistan in 2003 and torturing her in Bagram Prison until 2008 when she mysteriously appeared in Ghazni carrying incriminating evidence along with her son Ahmed.

An interview by Kamran Shahid on Pakistan’s Front Line TV show which was recently shown on 26th March, included a studio interview with Aafia’s sister Fowzia, her mothert Ismat and British Journalist Yvonne Ridley who was the first person to publicise the secret and illegal detention of Aafia by the United States Government agencies. (more…)