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Texas hostage case: Who is Aafia Siddiqui, the Pakistani convict at the centre of the storm?

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Texas hostage case: Who is Aafia Siddiqui, the Pakistani convict at the centre of the storm?

British national Malik Faisal Akram was killed Saturday during a confrontation with U.S. federal agents at a synagogue in Fort Worth, Texas, where he kidnapped a rabbi With three other hostages, he was “focused on just one issue” and, according to law enforcement officials, had demanded to see a woman serving a sentence in the United States.

U.S. media reports said Akram was likely referring to Aafia Siddiqui, a highly educated Pakistani neuroscientist who was convicted in 2010 on terrorism charges. The federal women’s prison where Siddiqui is located is less than 40 kilometers from where Akram was killed. The Texas Department of Public Safety said he had claimed he and the woman he wanted to meet would “go to Jenna after seeing her.” Siddiqui, once described as “the most wanted woman in the world” and “Mrs al-Qaeda”, has been a motivating figure for Islamists for many years.
In 2014, ISIS separately offered to free journalist James Foley and an American woman – later identified as Kayla Mueller – in exchange for Siddiqui’s freedom. The Taliban and the Haqqani network tried to trade US Army deserter Bowie Bergdahl for her. Siddiqui, 49, was born in Karachi and studied in the US in the 1990s. She was trained at MIT and received her PhD in Neuroscience from Brandeis University in Massachusetts in 2001.

In 2002, she opened a mailbox in the name of Al Qaeda suspect Majid Khan in Pakistan, who is currently at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, according to the FBI.

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In a profile published in 2010, The New York Times reported that Siddiqui was married to her second husband, Ammar al-Baluchi, the 9/11 conspirator and Daniel Pearl’s murderer, Khalid. De Sheikh Mohammed’s nephew, who himself was one of the funders of the 9/11 attacks, was in Pakistan in 2003 and then disappeared for about five years. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Ammar al-Baluchi are both being held at the Guantanamo Bay facility.

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Day 6 box office receipts for Game Changer: Ram Charan’s film takes another hit, earning over ₹110 crore

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Day 6 box office receipts for Game Changer: Ram Charan’s film takes another hit, earning over ₹110 crore

Game Changer box office collection day 6: Ram Charan and Kiara Advani-starrer released in theatres on January 10.
Game Changer box office collection: Ram Charan, Kiara Advani-Game Changer is one the first big releases of this year, and came with huge audience expectations. However the film opened to mixed reviews and has performed decently at the box office. As per the latest version of Sacnilk.com, Game Changer has minted ₹6.11 crore in its sixth day of release. Game Changer is directed by Shankar.

Game Changer box office collection

The report states that Game Changer has now crossed the ₹110 crore mark at the box office. It minted ₹5.55 crore on its first Wednesday, which is the lowest for the film so far. The film had seen a slight growth on its fifth day of release, with ₹10 crore net. The overall collections now stand at ₹112.26 crore.

Game Changer minted ₹51 crore on its opening day, and saw a dip in collections on its second day with ₹21.6 crore. Day three collections were at ₹15.9 crore whereas day four net was ₹7.65 crore. The film saw a sharp decline in its weekdays and is yet to recover. Game Changer is facing stiff competition from a number of releases, which includes Nandamuri Balakrisha’s Daaku Maharaj, Unni Mukundan’s Marco and Allu Arjun’s Pushpa 2: The Rule.

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Amid box office concerns for the film, a pirated version of Game Changer was allegedly aired on a local TV channel and shown in buses. Screenshots of the same surfaced on X, which caught the attention of producer Sreenivas Kumar. He took to his X account to demand strict action on it.

A few days ago, the makers of the film had filed a complaint against individuals for allegedly leaking a pirated version of the film online. The complaint also states that before the film’s release, the producers and a few team members were threatened through social media and messaging platforms like WhatsApp, wherein the same alleged pirates demanded money from producers and threatened to leak the pirated version if their demands were not fulfilled.

Game Changer is directed by Shankar and stars Ram Charan, Kiara Advani, and SJ Suryah. The film has also been released in Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam.

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