Webdesk: Dr. Fowzia Siddiqui said that she didn’t recognize her sister, the Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui, when they saw each other for the first time in 20 years at a jail hospital in Fort Worth, Texas, US. Aafia Siddiqui has been in prison for 20 years.
After they were finally able to meet Dr. Aafia, Dr. Fowzia, Senator Mushtaq of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), and human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith went to the United States.
When she got back to Pakistan, the doctor told reporters at the Karachi airport that this government helped her find her sister, even though the governments before this one could have done the same thing.
“My meeting with Aafia went well because the prime minister and the foreign minister helped,” she said.
She talked about her meeting with her sister by saying, “I could not even imagine that Dr. Aafia would have been in such a terrible situation.”
“She was in such bad shape that I couldn’t even recognize her.”
Dr. Fowzia said that it would be very easy for the government to send Dr. Aafia back home if they tried. She said that the next time she sees her sister will be in July.
The doctor who was in jail met with her sister about three times. She also met with JI’s Senator Mushtaq and the human rights lawyer.
None of them could meet her in person, though, because they were divided by clear glass and could only talk through phones.
