Relatives, LEA official issue contradictory statements; FBI website shows her as absconder
KARACHI - Despite her disappearance in 2003 in connection with the deadly attacks in the United States on September 9 2001, the name of Dr Afia Siddiqui, the wife of Abu Ammar, Ali bin Abdul Aziz, who was booked among four plotters of the incident, is still present as an absconder on the website of Federal Investigation Bureau (FBI) and the agency is seeking information about her to probe the tragedy.
Afia was disappeared from Karachi along with her three children after a month of the arrest of Khalid Sheikh Muhammad (KSM) in March 2003 from Rawalpindi.
She had doctoral degree in neurology from the MIT University, in Boston, United States. Afia, a resident of Gulshan-e-Iqbal, had reportedly been picked up by intelligence agencies on March 30 when she was on the way in cab to catch a flight for Rawalpindi but never reached the airport.
Siddiqui was allegedly handed over to the Americans who kept her detained at Bagram prison in Afghanistan but the official website of FBI still shows her an absconder in connection with the 9/11 attacks and wanted her for interrogation about her affiliation with Al-Qaeda and KSM.
According to the reports published in international media, Afia had allegedly provided assistance to KSM to accomplish the attacks. However, the family of her ex-husband, on condition of anonymity, told that she was a pious and practicing Muslim woman and used to distribute Quran and other religious books to prisoners and seminaries. They further told that she had been living with her husband, Amjad Khan, and two children, including son Muhammad and daughter Mariym, in the US for several years but their marriage had broken before a week of the birth of their third child. The cause of divorce remained mysterious because the families of both accused each other as religiously radical. The newly born baby was just six months old when Afia went missing while Abu Khalid, the nephew of the KSM, told The Nation that Afia got her second marriage with Ali Bin Abdul Aziz, brother of Khalid.
She added that the case would be resolved soon.
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