Washington is setting tough terms and conditions on Islamabad for a Pakistani female scientist’s possible extradition to Pakistan, Press TV reports.
Aafia Siddiqui was given a long jail term by a court in New York on alleged terrorism charges.
Siddiqui was sentenced to 86 years in prison in 2010.
The US has now offered Islamabad an agreement in which both sides will release each otherâ„¢s inmates. The US government has agreed to send back Siddiqui after finalizing the deal.
The terms of the deal demand that Pakistan accept the ruling of a US court, in which Siddiqui was convicted on terror-related charges.
The conviction triggered protests in different parts of Pakistan, where anti-US sentiments are already running high.
Siddiqui was charged with shooting at FBI agents and US military personnel in a police station in Ghazni, Afghanistan, where she was being interrogated in 2008.
Siddiqui vehemently denied all the charges against her during the trial, calling them ‘ridiculous’ and insisting that she was framed, jailed, and tortured by US agents in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Her lawyers argued that there is no evidence to show Siddiqui has ever fired using the weapon presented in court.
Human rights groups allege that Siddiqui had secretly been held and tortured at the US base in Bagram, north of Kabul, for five years prior to the alleged 2008 incident.
Relatives of Siddiqui have strongly criticized the US justice system for its ruling.
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Republished with permission from: Press TV