(NATIONAL/ CITY) OIC countries appealed to pass resolution for Dr Aafia.

KARACHI -- Civil society leaders on Saturday appealed to the OIC countries to pass a resolution for release of Dr Aafia Siddiqui.

As per details, the civil society leaders wrote a letter to federal secretary Afzal Latif, foreign secretary Suhail Ahmed and director general OIC Farrukh Iqbal Khan, congratulating the government of Pakistan and OIC leadership for holding a OIC foreign ministers' meeting in Islamabad on this critical juncture of history.

The letter written by Joining Hands Women Organization chairperson Sabeen Memon, Human Rights Council of Pakistan chairman Jamshed Hassan, Pasban Democratic Party general secretary Iqbal Hashmi and others welcomed the OIC moot in Islamabad scheduled on March 22-23. They appealed that on this occasion, resolution should be passed for the release of Dr Aafia and her repatriation back home.

They hoped that the OIC member countries would play their due role in this noble cause and would not disappoint those millions of Muslims of different countries, who are struggling and anxiously...