Aafia Siddiqui

On the occasion of this film festival Nawazuddin Sidduiqi's film PATANG was screened. Siddiqui would be one of the first actors in the history of Hindi cinema or rather Indian cinema to have been bestowed with such honour. He is quite clear about the fact ...  

It rarely happens for an actor that two of his films simultaneously make waves at the Cannes International Film festival, but Nawazuddin Siddiqui is one such rare actor. He is blessed that two of his yet to be released films GANGS OF WASSEYPUR 1&2 and MISS ...  

Earlier this year, South African Muslim media was abuzz with the story of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, an American-educated Pakistani cognitive neuroscientist who was convicted and sentenced to 86 years in prison for assault with intent to murder her U.S. interrogators in Afghanistan. The media campaign served to raise awareness about Siddiqui’s alleged abuse at the [...]  

People took to the street of the capital Islamabad to protest the government’s failure to secure the release of a Pakistani neuroscientist Dr Aafia Siddique from the US custody. Nine years on her detention has once again brought the people onto the streets to highlight what they call her mistrial in 2010 by a New  

Demonstrations have been held in Karachi to demand the release of Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui, who is imprisoned in the United States, Press TV reports. Friday’s main demonstration was organized by the country’s largest political-religious party Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), a Press TV correspondent said. JI Karachi chief Muhammad Hussain Mahenti said that the Unites States’ judiciary  

Karachi— Ismat Siddiqui, mother of detained Dr Aafia Siddiqui, will undergo an emergency operation for her broken hip bone. According to a press note issued by Aafia Movement on Sunday, Dr Aafia’s mother suffering from paralysis, got her hip bone. From her hospital bed, she expressed her gratitude to her well wishers and prayed for  

DANISH SIDDIQUI of Reuters photographed a crowd of Afgans at their local cinema. Once a luxury for the elite, cinemas in Afganistan are dilapidated and reflect an industry on the brink of collapse after conflict and neglect. Patrons are a rowdy, largely unemployed men in pursuit of any distraction. Photographs by: DANISH SIDDIQUI/REUTERS  

KARACHI - The Jamaat-e-Islami Karachi chief said on Friday that the US court’s verdict of 86-year imprisonment to Pakistan’s eminent scientist Dr Aafia Siddiqui proved that it was fully biased and had prejudice against the Muslims and Islam. Mohammad Hussain Mehanti was addressing a huge protest rally in the metropolis on the issue of Dr Aafia’s imprisonment in the US. JI ...  

KARACHI: Reminding that dishonouring a woman is a worse crime than contempt of court, Dr Fauzia, sister of Dr Aafia Siddiqui, asked when will justice be served to her innocent sister. Addressing a ‘Karvan-e-Ghairat’ rally in Karachi on Sunday, she said Aafia is being used for political gains but no sincere effort has been made  

Karachi – Mr & Mrs Jahangir Siddiqui unveiled the plaque for the new Jahangir Siddiqui Auditorium to be constructed at IBA Karachi Campus. The ceremony took place at IBA city campus and to mark this auspicious occasion, Mr and Mrs Jahangir Siddiqui (Chairman JS Bank), Dr. Ishrat Hussain (Dean IBA and former Governor of State Bank of Pakistan), Ali J Siddiqui (CEO, Mahvash & Jahangir ...  

The defense attorney for a German-Afghan man accused of membership in al-Qaida and a second terrorist group says his client should spend no more than four years in jail.Michael Rosenthal told a Koblenz state court in closing remarks Tuesday that Ahmad Wali Siddiqui had been at terrorist training camps on the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan, German news agency dapd reported. But he says Siddiqui, 37, never took part in paramilitary training...  

KARACHI - Excise & Taxation Department Sindh has recovered Rs 2.75 million with a penalty of Rs.2.79 million as Motor Vehicle Tax and impounded 596 defaulting vehicles in a week long vehicle checking campaign throughout the province. Director General Excise & Taxation Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui said that teams have been constituted in all five divisions Karachi, Hyderabad, Mirpurkhas, Sukkur ...  

LAHORE – The Lesco Additional Director General (Admin) Ihsan Muhammad Siddiqui has been promoted DG HR and Admin in the Company. Mr Ihsan on Thursday resumed the charge of his post, said Lesco in a statement.  According to the statement, Ihsan Siddiqui joined the Wapda as assistant director in 1983 and served on different post in different power companies.  

By: Ahmed Siddiqui, Startup Weekend San Francisco Bay Area Coordinator & Founder of Go Go Mongo! It seems like getting a technical co-founder is all the rage here in Silicon Valley. You have an awesome idea, and you have a killer application to YCombinator, and you know that if you land that technical co-founder, you’ll have the golden ticket to get that meeting with Paul Graham. You keep going to these networking events and tech events...  

KARACHI – Three PPP workers and a Peoples Student Federation activist were targeted killed, while sectarian killing claimed life of a seminary teacher on Friday.Four armed men reached on two motorbikes at a shop at Urdu Chowk, Mominabad in Orangi Town and opened indiscriminate firing. Resultantly four PPP activists namely Farhan alias Guddo, Nafees Siddiqui alias Munno Bihari, Umer Hayat ...  

 KARACHI - Board of Secondary Education Karachi Chairman Prof Muhammad Saeed Siddiqui on Wednesday visited four schools in Gulshan-e-Iqbal during the ongoing SSC-II examinations and caught six students red-handed using unfair means. All six cases of cheating besides two cases of impersonation were detected from the same school named ‘National High School’. Chairman BSE directed ...  

Dr. Fowzia Siddiqui sister of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, said that Nations that compromise on their honor and dignity, very soon loose their sovereignty and the leaders of the unfortunate nations are always ridiculed and degraded. It is upto us to show that we are an honorable people, and todays turnout has just proven that. We  

Actors like John and Tusshar love flaunting their butts ... Meanwhile his folks back home do not have a clue on the importance of the film festival. "I come from a small town called Buhana. People there are mostly farmers, including my family.  

He has a number of critically acclaimed films under his belt. And the year 2012 has been exceptionally good for actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui who has been part of movies like "Paan Singh Tomar" and "Kaahani" that not only fared well at the box ...  

Cityscape A.R. Siddiqui accepts the reality of Partition, but that does not stop him from enjoying a walk down the lanes of Old Delhi, his boyhood home Karachi-based Abdul Rahman Siddiqui has been through the 1965 and 1971 wars, acting as the principal ...  

The Orthopaedic and Spine Institute Medical Centers welcomes Dr. Saqib Siddiqui to its Minimally Invasive Center of Excellence. Dr. Siddiqui is well known for his minimally invasive procedures and is a great addition to the Center for the treatment of ...  

New Delhi, May 17 (PTI) With three of his films to be screened at 65th Cannes Film Festival, actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui says he is excited to have achieved such a feat, a first for any Indian actor. The 38-year-old actor''s three films to be screened at ...  

Friday the 30th of March in Johannesburg started off as a gloomy, foggy and overcast day. Yet, there was a lurking anticipation – Johannesburg was going to witness a rally at the US embassy! Nine years ago, on the 29th of March, an innocent victim of circumstances, Dr Aafia Siddiqui along with her three children  

Women from Lenasia chant for the freedom of Aafia . Clad in purple scarves and carrying white roses, protestors picketed for the freedom of Dr Aafia Siddiqui. GLOBAL Free Aafia Day was marked by residents of Lenasia and surrounding areas at a demonstration outside the US Consulate in Sandton. Clad in purple scarves and carrying  

AN American soldier on a shooting spree in Afghanistan’s southern province of Kandahar killed 17 innocent Afghan civilians and wounded several others. On September 23, 2010 US Judge Richard Berman sentenced Dr Aafia Siddiqui to 86 years of imprisonment for the ‘intent’ to murder US officers in Afghanistan.In all likelihood, the American ‘justice’ will prevail  

Dr aafia ‘s mother Ismat Siddiqui had a  surgery on 3rd April 2012. According  to Press note issued by aafia movement the operation is successful and  Ismat Siddiqui health has recovered in last 10 days ,But she is still admitted in hospital for further treatment. Dr Fowzia Siddiqui said we are Thankful to all well  

"The story is about two brothers, who make C-grade films. There is one struggling actress (played by former Miss India Niharika Singh) and they both fall in love with her," he said. In ‘Miss Lovely’, the actor plays a C-grade film director ...  

Karachi : Pasban Monday condemned the statement of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Azad Kashmir leader Raja Farooq Haider against Pakistani scientist Dr Aafia Siddiqui, undergoing 86-year imprisonment in a prison in US. Pasban general secretary Usman Moazzam said Haider’s statement was biased and the PML-N should take disciplinary action against him. He reiterated that Dr Aafia  

Will the Islamophobia never end? "Failed bombing plot at temple: Siddiqui shows spot, says ATS," from Indian Express, May 12 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): The state Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has claimed that alleged Indian Mujahideen operative Mohammed Qateel Mohammed Jafar Siddiqui has ‘willingly’ confessed that he conducted a...  

They are: Matin Yusuf, former deputy mayor of Karachi; Farrukh Naeem Siddiqui, ex-MNA and former member of MQM Rabita Committee; Rafiq Essani, Arif Siddiqui and Abid Akhtar, former provincial ministers and S. Mohiuddin and former members of MQM ...  

A website (www.ashrafsiddqui.com) on the life and works of the acclaimed poet, researcher, folklorist and essayist Dr. Ashraf Siddiqui -- with a view to preserving his precious contribution to literature for the next generation -- has been launched.  

Michael Rosenthal told a Koblenz state court in closing remarks Tuesday that Ahmad Wali Siddiqui had been at terrorist training camps on the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan, German news agency dapd reported. But he says Siddiqui, 37 ...  

Krishok Sramik Janata League president Kader Siddiqui lay down in front of BNP's central office as police detained ten of his party men on Tuesday. Photo: STAR/Rakib Hasnet Suman Star Online Report Kader Siddiqui, president of Krishok Sramik Janata League ...  

A Pune court granted eight days' police custody to alleged Indian Mujahideen (IM) operative Mohammad Quateel alias Mohammad Jafir Siddiqui on Thursday. Siddiqui has been accused of plotting to plant a bomb in the popular Dagdusheth Halwai Ganapati Temple ...  

KOBLENZ: A German-Afghan man on trial for membership in al-Qaeda says the terrorist group did end up with money he had sent from Germany but the funds had been intended for his own expenses. Ahmad Wali Siddiqui, 37, has previously told the state ...  

Patna: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader and the leader of the opposition in Bihar Assembly, Abdul Bari Siddiqui, at a press conference in Patna on Thursday said that the law and order situation in Bihar had taken a nosedive in the last few months and the ...  

KARACHI: Sindh Commerce and Industries Minister Rauf Siddiqui on Monday announced restoration of ... Sindh Secretary Commerce and Industries Zameer Ahmad Khan, MD SITE Abdul Rasheed Solangi and others officials appreciated the efforts of Siddiqui for ...  

Siddiqui, who is considered a close confidant of Mayawati, along with his wife Husna Siddiqui, filed a petition seeking quashing of the Lokayukta order dated March 15, 2012, whereby the disproportionate assets case against him had been sent for ...  

Tickets are available for Dh500, dh250, Dh250, Dh150 and Dh75. In a separate event, Ghazal maestro Ghulam Ali will perform at a concert on May 18 at the Jumeirah Ballroom in Hotel Crowne Plaza and belt out his hits including Chup Ke Chup Ke and Kal ...  

Patna: The three-member Press Council of India (PCI) fact-finding team continued its investigation in Patna on Monday questioning a number of journalists, reporters, and even politicians to find out if the state government was trying to gag the freedom of ...  

Ahmad Wali Siddiqui, 37 ... Siddiqui told the court Tuesday that he and others met twice in mid-2010 with al-Mauritani in an al Qaeda apartment in Mir Ali, one of the main towns in North Waziristan near the Afghan border. He and a friend ...  

Arabian Healthcare Group is positioning itself for explosive growth in medical tourism. Zawya interviews chief executive Raza Siddiqui for details. Raza Siddiqui, chief executive of Arabian Healthcare, has been associated with the field for over three ...  

Taking the matter seriously, Malhotra had yesterday asked registrars of both Kanpur and Delhi to provide information regarding his companies AQ Frozen Foods and Al Nafis Frozen Foods, a multi-national meat supplying company in which he has ...  

LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh Lokayukta retired Justice N K Malhotra has sought details of the companies of Nasimuddin Siddiqui's son Afzal Siddiqui from the Registrar of Companies in Kanpur and Delhi. Afzal, against whom complaints of land ...  

An American soldier in a shooting spree in Afghanistan’s southern province of Kandahar has killed 17 innocent Afghan civilians and wounded several others. On September 23, 2010 US Judge Richard Berman sentenced Dr Aafia Siddiqui to 86 years of imprisonment for the “intent” to murder of US officers in Afghanistan. In all likelihood the American  

Tupper Lake --  The two Missing Persons from the Tupper Lake area, Carl R. Burns Jr, age 41, of Broad Street, Tupper Lake and Angela I. Roberts, age 23, of Park Street, Tupper Lake, have both been located.    Ms. Roberts was located by a passing motorist walking on Conifer Road in the town of Piercefield late Thursday.  She was transported to Adirondack Medical Center at Saranac Lake where she ...  

Each year, hundreds of people go missing and sometimes there are happy reunions, but other times, the stories turn tragic. News 14 Carolina's Marti Skold talks to Monica Caison from the Cue Center for Missing Persons about a conference taking place in the Port City this weekend.  

Chair-person of Aafia Movement Dr. Fowzia Siddiqui said that an honorable nation requires an honorable leadership, there are even some principles of prostitution business but our rulers and politicians are even worse than sex workers. She was addressing a massive rally of KARWAN E GERAT at Bacha Khan Chowk in Karachi where thousands of people  

Muhammad Jalal. I would like to say that Dr. Aafia Siddiqui is a victim, not a criminal. She was abducted from Karachi, Pakistan, and is being accused for something in Afghanistan. Rather, this is a matter to be investigated in itself. Moreover, the accusation of Afghanistan is an invalid case. How can one be charged  

With the third most electoral votes of any state, Florida is one of the country's most crucial swing states. With the 2012 election approaching, the focus is moving to constituencies that can swing an election, including American Muslims.  

During Wednesday's press conference in Big Spring over discovered human remains, the Big Spring Police Department made it a point to mention there are two other missing persons cases out of Big Spring, not just Hailey Dunn's.  

The committee formed to assess Cleveland’s missing persons cases in the wake of 11 bodies found in an Imperial Avenue home has been disbanded after making their final recommendations to Mayor Frank Jackson.  

Danish Siddiqui has photographed Ashok Aswani, India's biggest Charlie Chaplin fan, and his fan club the Charlie Circle  

UP Lokayukta seeks details of Siddiqui companies  

An upcoming child safety awareness fair will help to prevent missing persons cases and shine some light on the case of Damien Sharp.  

SCRANTON - A wanted woman was arrested Tuesday night after she ran from Scranton police, leading them to fire a Taser at her.  

Islamabad, Apr 12(ANI): Three missing persons from Quetta were reportedly produced before the Pakistan Supreme Court today.  

More than 100 children remain on Ireland's missing persons list, it has been revealed.