Karachi: A Pakistani citizen Sheeraz Malik presently jailed in Adams County Correction Center has contacted Aafia Movement Pakistan (AMP), requesting for legal and diplomatic assistance for his repatriation.
An AMP release here Wednesday said that Sheeraz Malik has sent a petition to the Prime Minister Pakistan, as well as, Aafia Movement Pakistan through Aafiat Welfare Trust, appealing that legal and diplomatic assistance should be lent to him for his early release and repatriation.
Sheeraz belonging to a low income family in Pakistan had gone to the UK in search of better economic opportunities. In 2007 he married a polish lady and became permanent resident of Poland and established an online supply company of medicines. His buyers were mostly international citizens.
In his petition, Malik said he had followed all rules of the EU, and Police department of Poland had already verified it. He said in 2011 he was arrested from Czech Republic through Interpol. The US prosecution alleged that he had broken a US law by selling medicine to a US citizen.
He said he was running an online pharmacy and if some US citizen had bought some medicine from him, what was his fault. He said he was threatened that he would be given 25 years jail and in a plea bargain he was given 16 years jail.
Malik said we Pakistanis living abroad send foreign exchange of billions of dollars but our embassies do not support us when we face any difficulty. He requested Prime Minister Imran Khan that a prisoners’ transfer treaty should be made with the US, so that Pakistanis languishing in pathetic conditions in the US jail could be repatriated to Pakistan. He said for last seven years he had not met with his children and ailing mother.
However, AMP receiving the petition wrote letters to Prime Minister Imran Khan, Foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, human rights minister Dr Shereen Mazari and federal state minister for home Shaheryar Afridi. It also sent them the copies of three options regarding prisoners’ swap which had already been presented to them by AMP leader Dr Fowzia Siddiqui, during her recent meetings in Islamabad. It said that a prisoners’ swap agreement with the US would greatly help in repatriation of Dr Aafia Siddiqui and other Pakistani prisoners languishing in American jails.
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