FP Monitoring Desk
ISLAMABAD - In the latest breakthrough, the US has offered Pakistan
to sign a prisoner swap agreement for the extradition of Dr Aafia
Siddiqi, after which the Pakistani scientist will be allowed to serve
the remaining part of her imprisonment in homeland.
Talking to local tv during morning programme, the spokesperson of
the foreign office Umar Hameed also confirmed that the US has offered
Pakistan to sign prisoner swap agreement after which both countries
will release each others prisoners.
According to the documents acquired from Interior Ministry, the US
told Pakistan in written that the only legal way for the extradition of
Dr Aafia Siddiqi was to sign prisoner swap agreement with the US. The
US offered two deals that include European Convention on the Transfer
of Sentenced Persons and Convention on Serving Criminal Sentences
Abroad in this regard.
Meanwhile, it was also revealed that the Interior Ministry had
formed a task force following the US offer which held its first session
on July 3 to review the agreement.
The task force was established under the directives of Interior
Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan.
The Pakistani neuroscientist was sentenced to 86 years in prison
after she was convicted of grabbing a US soldier s M-4 assault rifle
and trying to shoot a group of FBI agents and soldiers at an Afghan
police compound in July 2008, a charge she consistently denied during
the trial.
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