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Aafia Siddiqui

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Aafia Siddiqui (also spelled Afiya; Urdu: عافیہ صدیقی; born 2 March 1972) is a Pakistani neuroscientist and educator who gained international attention following her conviction in the United States and is currently serving an 86-year sentence for attempted murder and other felonies at the Federal Medical Center, Carswell, in Fort Worth, Texas. Siddiqui was born in Pakistan to a Sunni Muslim family. For a period from 1990, she studied in the United States and obtained from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology a B.S. in biology, and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from Brandeis University in 2001. She returned to Pakistan for a time following the 9/11 attacks and again in 2003 during the war in Afghanistan. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Aafia Siddiqui is the 64th most popular mafioso (down from 51st in 2019), the 144th most popular biography from Pakistan (down from 62nd in 2019) and the most popular Pakistani Mafioso.

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Among MAFIOSOS

Among mafiosos, Aafia Siddiqui ranks 64 out of 70. Before her are Sergei Magnitsky, Jonathan Pollard, Kenneth Lay, Iva Toguri D'Aquino, Rakhat Aliyev, and Abu Hamza al-Masri. After her are Salah Abdeslam, Troy Davis, Ram Bahadur Bomjon, Delara Darabi, Peggy Hettrick murder case, and Murder of Emily Armstrong.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1972, Aafia Siddiqui ranks 547. Before her are Mamta Kulkarni, Svetlana Ishmouratova, Nataša Ninković, Christian Ruud, Zhanna Pintusevich-Block, and Vassilios Tsiartas. After her are Peter Møller, Sylvain Tesson, Terry Balsamo, Justina Machado, Legna Verdecia, and Stoja.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Aafia Siddiqui ranks 144 out of 217. Before her are Chris Van Hollen (1959), Hadiqa Kiani (1972), A. K. Hangal (1915), Ramanand Sagar (1917), Yasmeen Lari (1941), and Keshav Dutt (1925). After her are Kuldip Nayar (1923), Noor Alam (1929), Ramesh Sippy (1947), Shamshad Begum (1919), Kulbhushan Kharbanda (1944), and Suresh Oberoi (1946).

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Among MAFIOSOS In Pakistan

Among mafiosos born in Pakistan, Aafia Siddiqui ranks 1. 

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