Lahore: THE Lahore High Court Bar Association, through a resolution, demanded the federal government on Friday bring back Pervez Musharraf in the country to try him under Article 6 of the Constitution (high treason) for selling Pakistanis against dollars.

The Bar also urged the government of Pakistan should take steps for repatriation of Dr Aafia Siddiqui and rejected her trial in America. It passed the resolution after Dr Fauzia Siddiqui, sister of Dr Aafia, delivered a speech at the LHCBA.

Dr Fauzia criticised the former rulers for handing over Aafia and her children to America to earn dollars. She said the whole family remained in a state of agony and annoyance for seven years as they had no clue about Aafiaís whereabouts. She said Aafia had been kept in detention without any cogent evidence against her. She called upon the Pakistani government that if Aafia was a culprit she should have been tried in Pakistan.

Meanwhile, the Judicial Activism Panel has announced to hold weekly protest across the country for the release of Dr Aafia and for demanding the United Nations and International Court of Justice to take up the matter/case in its own hand and hold a judicial inquiry into the circumstances that led to trial against Siddiqui.

JAP chairman Muhammad Azhar Siddique advocate made the announcement after a meeting with Dr Fauzia Siddiqui. He said the protest call had been given to mobilise people as the American court would announce punishment on May 8. He said the Pakistani government had failed to exert pressure on the US for a fair trial of Dr Aafia so Aafiaís case should be referred to any other country.

He said the trial of Dr Aafia Siddiqui had deviated the principles laid down in Magna Carta, Charter of United Nations, International Humanitarian Law, Humanitarian Rights and Human rights and International Committee of the Red Cross Humanitarian Rights, Human rights and Terrorism and Right of Self-Determination as Human Right.

Source: The News