Dr. Aafia Siddiqui had another visitor six days after senators from Pakistan, according to Dr. Fouzia Siddiqui, her sister. This visitor was Aafia's brother. According to him, she was brought in handcuffs and chains to meet him. She was frail and bent. “Aafia has no insight to the extent of allegations against her," according to Fouzia. "She was paranoid and at times delusional." According to this report, Aafia was so tired of the torture and abuse that she had requested the facility authorities not to put her on DNR (artificial respiratory system) and let her die. “Putting on artificial respiratory system once saved her life, when she became unconscious during torture,” the sister added.Four senators who met Aafia on October 6 verified, just like representatives of Pakistan embassy earlier, that Aafia appeared to be mentally stable. That statement caused concern because American lawyers of persecution and defense had unanimously raised questions about Aafia's mental capability to stand trial. According to senators, Aafia said that she didn't trust her American lawyers.
That raised some serious concern about whether there might be ulterior motives behind having Aafia certified as mentally unstable. The entire episode of her transfer to Carswell for "psychiatric evaluation" appeared shady.
Now, the headline given by Daily Times to statement of Dr. Aafia's sister is 'Senators’ statements shock Dr Aafia’s family'. It is followed by subheading, 'Fouzia asks "how could a person be happy after years of torture?"’ However, far from refuting the senators' statement, the report is likely to ring further alarm.
Aafia's brother met her on October 12, six days after the senators. If both statements are correct then the conclusion is rather disturbing: Aafia appeared more stable on October 6 than on October 12. Is her mental health deteriorating at Carswell?
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Now I am more convinced than before that the delegation from Pakistan was here to hurt Aafia Siddiqui by misrepresenting her and misleading the people of Pakistan. I am ashamed but unfortunately not shocked, this is exactly the behavior of our representative in the government that got us in where we are now. That a citizen was illegally abducted and her government is going along with the abductor. I don't know why but I used to have some respect for Mushahid Hussein. He turned out to be just as disgusting as a lot of other politicians in Pakistan.
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