{"id":4677,"date":"2025-06-30T11:27:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T06:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/?p=4677"},"modified":"2025-06-30T18:02:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T13:02:43","slug":"ihc-questions-govts-refusal-to-support-aafia-siddiqui-case-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/2025\/06\/30\/ihc-questions-govts-refusal-to-support-aafia-siddiqui-case-in-us","title":{"rendered":"IHC Questions Govt&#8217;s Refusal to Support Aafia Siddiqui Case in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"78\" data-end=\"290\"><strong>ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has demanded a clear explanation from the federal government over its decision not to become a legal party in the ongoing case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui in the United States.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"292\" data-end=\"438\">The court heard a plea submitted by Dr. Fouzia concerning her sister\u2019s deteriorating health and possible repatriation from the U.S.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"440\" data-end=\"477\"><strong data-start=\"440\" data-end=\"477\">Court Demands Legal Justification<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"479\" data-end=\"688\">Justice Sardar Ejaz Ishaq Khan presided over the session, where Advocate Imran Shafiq represented the petitioner, and senior government officials, including the additional attorney general, were in attendance.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"690\" data-end=\"857\">The additional attorney general informed the bench that the government had decided against offering legal assistance or becoming a party in the U.S. court proceedings.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"859\" data-end=\"1014\">This prompted Justice Khan to question the rationale behind such a decision, emphasizing that governmental choices must be rooted in clear legal reasoning.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1016\" data-end=\"1122\">\u201cThis is a constitutional court. Decisions made without justification cannot be entertained,\u201d he remarked.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1124\" data-end=\"1155\"><strong data-start=\"1124\" data-end=\"1155\">Next Hearing Set for July 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1157\" data-end=\"1251\">The court directed the government to present valid reasons for its stance at the next hearing.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1253\" data-end=\"1406\">Until then, the proceedings have been adjourned to Friday, July 4, as the court awaits further clarity on the state\u2019s position in this high-profile case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has demanded a clear explanation from the federal government over its decision not to become a legal party in the ongoing case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui in the United States. The court heard a plea submitted by Dr. Fouzia concerning her sister\u2019s deteriorating health and possible repatriation from the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2277,2278,1639],"class_list":["post-4677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","tag-aafia","tag-legalrights","tag-repatriation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4677"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4715,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4677\/revisions\/4715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}