Karachi: Dr Fauzia Siddiqui, the sister of Dr Aafia Siddiqui, said on Saturday that Aafia was allowed to speak to her family after passing of deadline to challenge her detention.
Dr Fauzia while speaking to a private TV channel said that Aafia could have been persuaded to file appeal against her detention if she had been allowed to speak to her family before April 15, which was the last date for filing appeal.
Dr Aafia Siddiqui was last year awarded 86-year jail term on charges of shooting at and injuring US soldiers in Afghanistan.
Earlier on Friday, Pakistani Counsel General in Houston, US, Aqil Nadeem visited detained Pakistani scientist Dr Aafia Siddiqui in Carswell detention facility in Taxes.
Reports said that the counsel general had a meeting with Ms Siddiqui that lasted two hours. During the meeting Siddidui told the counsel general that she was medically fine and was pleased to speak by phone to her mother and children in Karachi on Thursday.
Officials in the Pakistani embassy told that Siddiqui would be allowed to meet her brother. The consul general informed Ms Siddiqui that the Pakistani embassy in Washington had coordinated consular access for her through the concerned authorities.
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