Will do whatever it take to bring back Aafia Siddiqui: FM Qureshi
India violating ceasefire to divert the worlds attention from its atrocities in occupied Kashmir
MULTAN (Dunya News) – Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Saturday said that no deal would be made on Aafia Siddiqui and Shakeel Afridi.
Talking to media in Multan on Saturday, he said that we think Dr Shakeel Afridi worked against Pakistan’s national interest.
Qureshi said that we will do whatever we can at the diplomatic level to bring back Aafia Siddiqui.
Qureshi said Aafia s family would be facilitated if she serves rest of her term in Pakistan. The PTI government had raised the issue of “respecting the human and legal rights” of Dr Aafia Siddiqui with US Ambassador Alice Wells, who visited Islamabad on November 7.
The foreign minister further denied any offer made by the US in the past to free the incarcerated Pakistani neuroscientist in exchange for the release of Raymond Davis, a CIA operative who gunned down two men in Lahore in 2011.
Condemning the Indian firing across the Line of Control (LoC), the foreign minister said India was violating the ceasefire to divert the world’s attention from its atrocities in the occupied Kashmir.
