{"id":516725,"date":"2025-11-26T06:20:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T01:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=516725"},"modified":"2025-11-26T06:20:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T01:20:40","slug":"aag-seeks-time-from-ihc-for-filing-amicus-brief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/aag-seeks-time-from-ihc-for-filing-amicus-brief\/","title":{"rendered":"AAG seeks time from IHC for filing amicus brief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Aafia Case<br \/>\nKARACHI\/ISLAMABAD: The Additional Attorney General (AAG) sought time from the Islamabad High Court (IHC) for filing an amicus brief in the case of Dr Aafia Siddiqui. A larger bench of the IHC heard Petition No. 3139\/2015 filed by Global Aafia Movement Chairperson and leading Pakistani neurophysician, Dr Fowzia Siddiqui. Advocate Imran Shafiq appeared for the petitioner, who was also present in person. Clive Smith, Aafia\u2019s Lawyer, appeared via video link. On behalf of the government, Additional Attorney General Rashid Hafeez, Deputy Attorney General Arshad Mehmood Kiani, and Asad Burki, Legal Advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, were in attendance. During the proceedings, counsel for the petitioner submitted that vide order dated 16.05.2025, the learned Judge-in-Chamber had allowed C.M. No. 921\/2025\u2014filed by the petitioner seeking amendment in the prayer clause of the main writ petition\u2014while dismissing C.M. No. 811\/2025 filed by the respondents, which sought disposal of the writ petition on grounds of it having become infructuous.  APP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Aafia Case KARACHI\/ISLAMABAD: The Additional Attorney General (AAG) sought time from the Islamabad High Court (IHC) for filing an amicus brief in the case of Dr Aafia Siddiqui. A larger bench of the IHC heard Petition No. 3139\/2015 filed by Global Aafia Movement Chairperson and leading Pakistani neurophysician, Dr Fowzia Siddiqui. Advocate Imran Shafiq [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-516725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>AAG seeks time from IHC for filing amicus brief<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/aag-seeks-time-from-ihc-for-filing-amicus-brief\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"AAG seeks time from IHC for filing amicus brief\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dr Aafia Case KARACHI\/ISLAMABAD: The Additional Attorney General (AAG) sought time from the Islamabad High Court (IHC) for filing an amicus brief in the case of Dr Aafia Siddiqui. 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