Karachi: Aafia Movement leader and noted neurophysician of the country Dr Fowzia Siddiqui has said that our founding fathers had dreamt of a free Pakistan, but our corrupt rulers made it an enslaved country. In a statement issued here Sunday, she said that our ancestors 70 years ago had laid a lot of sacrifices to make a free and independent state for the Muslims where the honor of daughters and mothers is guaranteed, where more people are willing to pay zakat than the recipients of zakat, a country with an educated and enlightened society, but sadly the corrupt and dishonest rulers turned this dream sour and made this nation a debt-burdened and enslaved country. Dr Fowzia regretted that people of Pakistan are also mentally enslaved by these corrupt leaders and incapable bureaucracy. She said that if the new generation did not realize the gravity of situation now it would endanger the solidarity of this country. She said we have already lost our one arm and our jugular vein is in danger. She said that when the nation is celebrating the Independence Day it should also ponder over the above sad facts. She said the objectives of the creation of Pakistan would be obtained when we follow the motto of Quaid e Azam: Faith, Unity, and Discipline. She regretted that the daughter of the nation, Aafia, has been languishing in a foreign prison for years, adding our young generation has to show courage and sense of honor and safeguard the honor of mothers and daughters so that the objective of making Pakistan a true Islamic welfare state is achieved. She said that 14 years of illegal detention of Dr Aafia Siddiqui have already completed. Her children, Ahmed and Mariam have completed their initial education with flying colors and they are set to start their higher education; however, as the family is not in telephonic contact with Aafia it cannot share this good news with her. However the Aafia Movement and Aafia family wish the nation a happy Independence Day. On the 70th Independence Day they pledge to continue struggle for repatriation of Aafia so that she could fulfill her dream of a highly educated Pakistan. Published in Daily Times, August 15th 2017.