Islamabad: Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani prisoner in the United States whose release was reportedly asked by a Texas hostage taker this weekend, serving an 86-year sentence for an attempted murder of American soldiers.
Four people were released without being hurt on Sunday after a deadlock of more than 10 hours in a synagogue in the US state.
The curft curtain they were killed.
The media, quoting a US official who was briefed on this issue, reported that the man called for a 49-year-old Siddiqui.
His lawyer said in a statement to CNN that he had “absolutely no involvement” in the hostage situation, and condemned the man’s actions.
A US-educated Pakistani scientist, he was imprisoned in 2010 for attacking American soldiers in Afghanistan.
He was the first woman suspected of being the Al-Qaeda link by the US, but was never convicted of it.
At the age of 18 siddiqui went to the US, where his brother lived, to study at MIT prestigious Boston, then received a PhD in neuroscience at Brandeis University.
But after the 11/11 terror attack in 2001, he appeared on the Radar FBI for contributions to Islamic organizations and was associated with the purchase of a $ 10,000 night-vision glasses and books on war.
The US suspected he joined Al-Qaeda from America, returning to Pakistan where he married Khalid Family Sheikh Mohammed – a 9/11 attack architect.
He disappeared around 2003, along with his three children, in Karachi.
Five years later he appeared in a torn neighbor of the Pakistani war, Afghanistan, where he was arrested by local forces in the turbulent Southeast Ghazni Province.
During his interrogation by US troops, he grabbed a rifle and fired a shot, shouting “death to America” ​​and “I want to kill Americans”.
The soldiers escaped endlessly, but he was injured.
The prison triggered anger in his home country and his supporters claimed that he was a victim of Pakistan-US plots secret.
After he was punished, Al-Qaida then number two called Muslims to “reply to the decision.
The release was previously in the center of militant demands, including two hostage crises in Pakistan and the arrest of James Foley, an American journalist who was beheaded by the Islamic State in 2014.
Michael Kugelman, a South Asian analyst, tweeted: “Siddiqui is not known in the US, but In Pakistan he was a big name – looking at him as an innocent victim.
” In the previous article, he described it as a cause of celebrre among Islamic militants, and said he was seen as a “strong symbol of how poor Americans treated innocent Muslims in a global campaign against terror”.
This problem remains a matter of long-term tension between Pakistan and the US.
During his election campaign, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, an open critic of the US actions related to the fight against terror, vowed to release it.
He offered a free Afridi Shakeel, which languishing in Pakistani prison for his role in helping Americans track the founders of Al-Qaeda Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.