The story of Dr. Afia Siddiqui has garnered major attention in Pakistan. According to The News, much has been made of her “discovery” in FBI custody over the past few days. However, noted the news agency, “a close examination of the various reports relating to her discovery reveals very little of substance and certainly does not reveal an admission by the FBI that she is being held by them. Also missing are her three children, the youngest born about 2001 and the oldest about 1991. There are no reports of them being seen since March 2003 when Afia Siddiqui herself disappeared.” Below is a poem written by contributor Hassan Abbas who said he was motivated to write the piece “after reading the shockingly monstrous, inhuman and criminally illegal way the U.S. forces in Afghanistan have treated a Pakistani married woman and her small children for the past five years.” Details of Siddiqui’s situation can be read at the blog, Teeth Maestro. Hassan noted, “After repeatedly denying any knowledge of her whereabouts for the past five years, the Americans have finally been forced to admit to their act because of the efforts of Mr. Moazzam Begg, who recounted his experiences as a U.S. prisoner in a book… British Lord Nazeer; a British journalist Yvonne Ridley; and a number of human rights organizations also have presented evidence of a certain prisoner-of-war known as Prisoner 650 who was in terrible medical condition within an American prison located in Afghanistan. These same people said they had reason to suspect that Prisoner 650 is Dr. Afia Siddiqui.” Below, is Hassan’s poem to Siddiqui, “prisoner 650 in American custody”:
A Glorious Dawn…And a Better Day
Another dawn …another day,
Disgrace; insult is thrown our way;
Yet shamelessly on their golden perch
The spineless look – Oh how they sway!
As if there is no Lord above,
They with the devil-hand in glove;
Selling our dearest values and souls,
For gold and power – push and shove!
This crime you saw they so denied,
To filthy scum they sold the bride;
Yet the mighty Creator seeing it all
Unveils the gruesome act they hide!
Amongst ravenous wolves the fair one lies,
As from brutish hands she helplessly flies;
A suffering sister sane no more,
Her anguished screams – they rent the skies.
And this is all the pride you boast,
Our tormentors you daily host !
But yesterday we shared the cup,
– And today so far apart we coast ?
When comes a ‘Qasim’ to stem this rot?
Of Almighty Allah and His Messenger forgot!
Of cheaply selling our heritage which –
With submission and sacrifice was dearly bought.
And yet the strong will go their way,
As an ‘Iftikhar’ keep the monsters at bay;
Afia! Our elders pray, while the braver fight –
For a glorious dawn…and a better day!
A note from Hassan: I ask readers of this poem to please join the cause to get her release by signing this petition and doing anything else to protest this monstrosity- if you so wish. May I request you to please give this appeal the widest circulation.
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Today I am really ashamed of myself and all the fellow Pakistanis, still throughout comments we are only playing a blame game and nothing else. My question is that how many Aifa’s will have to be sacrificed for us to standup as the nation. It is not Human Rights commission or Politicians who will change us, we need to individually and collectively stand up and change our selves.
MAY ALLH Bless the True Sister and Mother of the Ummah as one cried and Sindh was Fught by her Muslim Brother but today we stand as if nothing happened. Sister Afia we Pakistani’s and Muslims are the real culprits, we couldn’t stand for her Sister and still cannot be.
Article on MSNBC this morning [the picture of Dr. Siddiqui is very disturbing]:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26026958/
I am so appalled. And even more ashamed as I had no knowledge of this story. I read some more about it right now. It’s shameful that instead of verifying her guilt, they have thrown her in prison and subjected her to such abuse. And her poor children, God knows where they are. This, from our President who is a self-proclaimed proponent of women’s rights and from a country that preaches the world about peace and justice. Disgusting.
Kalsoom, thanks so much to you and Hassan for bringing this to our attention. These are issues that rightly deserve recognition.
http://www.ahrchk.net/ua/support.php?ua=UAC-167-2008
This is the page where you can sign a petition that will go out to Gilani and to Bush. I don’t know how effective it’ll be, but we might as well try the best we can.
Prisoner No.650
@Dr Afia Siddiqui is yet one of the hundreds of “numbered”
prisoners in Nazi camp in Bagram and Guantanabay and
elsewhere since FIVE YEARS with her three kids (no where
abouts confirmed).
Thanks for reminding us after 5 years.
Shame on Asma Jehangir and her “Human riots” band of
coward characters of ALEXANDER SOLZYNITSIN’S
REVELATIONS on Goolagist ideologies, there are plenty of
them.
Rafay Kashmiri
I do not know what to write,what to do……nor know whom to blame…..my heart cries on our helplessness…just want to say that we are with you Afia and all are muslim brethern imprisoned for being muslims….
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i DONOT KNOW WHAT CAN I SAY THE THINGS IS THAT WE
RESPOSIABEL FOR IT OKAY I FELL SAHME.
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This is a shameful act done by so called Civilized Nations. I am very very shocked to know about the brutality of Americans. (Ameen)
Crime against Afia is crime against humanity. It is one more blot on the American administration which has lost confidence in basic human rights, moral courage and reason. It only reveals the fact that American Empire is too afraid of people’s power all over the world. It is really pity that a super power like America did not ashame in abducting foreign citizen, even a weaker women and children. It is an alarm for American people also who are destined to meet the same treatment by the American Empire as a logical result of defensive mechanism of an empire in the long run. So far as Pakistani President and his aides are concerned, they are soulless people who can punch their fist only aginst their subjects.
Long live Afia and may Allah shower His blessings on you and your family members. Your perseverence against torments and torture for no crime of you shall be remembered for generations giving strength to your nation.
THIS POEN FOR DR. AFIA SIDDIQI IS SUFFIECIENT FOR ME TO WEEP BUT WE CANT WEEP SO LOUD AS IT IS THE SHAMFULL ACT OF OUR OWN GOVT. ACTUALLY I CONDENM THE ACT OF ISI AND FBI.
I CANT EXPRESS MY FEELING COMPLETELY ON THIS OCCASION BUT I WILL PRAY FOR DR. AFIA SAFE RELEASE.
MAY GOD BLESS HER.
ISRAR, SAUDI ARAB
Shocking !!!!!!!!!!!1 i m deeply perturbed to say the least .
I ts a major humiliation for our nation .. Handing over a highly educated pakistani doctor along with her three minor children must have been done in exhange for dollars ..
Its ironic how our human right activists work day and night to release prisoners like kashmir singh and sarabjt singh who are proven guilty of killing several pakistanis in blast .. yet the plight n misery of a fellow pakistani citizen goes un noticed ..
I nspite of gaining nuclear strenght and after 60 yrs of independance we r still lacking a respectable place in world community .. the reason being that we have lost the STRENGth OF CHARACTER…
May Allah forgive us all.. and may Allah help sister aafia and unite her with her three children n bring to justice all those who have harmed her ..
@Our rulers, alongwith “intellectuals” are total soldouts
to anti-Islam masters,
Kashmir Singh and Sarabjit Singh’s cases were a flagrant
prove for that, we have no more integrity left in our
stomachs, treason is normal !! just watch the media TV
etc.
the only thing i cod do is pray for her release, the release of an innocent mother, the defenseless survivior, a fellow muslim who suffered it all and cried all this time while we just slept
@Faiza,
No, praying is not enough (I think) you have to participate
in jihad (nonarmed) to obtain justice and humanism, don’t
worry we were all sleeping and
Musharraf the Male Mr.World pageant of “Beghairati” sold out more than 700 Pakistanis to the Nazi butchers against cash,
other, Miss World pageant for Beghairati was Baby BB, daughter of ZA Bhutto, she was about to sell Dr AQ Khan to the same Nazis, AQ Khan the only Hero and GHAIRAT-MAND human left in Pakistan.
OUR POLITICIANS ARE NOTHING BUT THE FEMALE DAUPHINE. Adil Najam of ATP was emotionally unfit for analysing who is qualified to be Beghairat or not on his silly blog, he was
proved WRONG anyway.
The entirety of progys leftist intellectuals, journalists, media
owners in Pakistan are not less than Beghairats.
cheers
this is very very shameful, why pakis are quiet and looking this play………>? no protest no strong voice?…I think they are waiting something to come from god, I think one more earthquake…
irfan
nizamabad, India
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SHOKED!!