LAHORE - The Lahore High Court on Friday reserved its judgment on a petition seeking courts directions to the government to follow the case of Dr Aafia Siddiqui in the US court. Earlier, Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry heard arguments of the petitioner, Barrister Iqbal Jaffery, and the counsels for the State to evaluate possible modes in which Aafia was helped by the Pakistani government in the legal battle in the US court. A report was also submitted by a representative of the Foreign Ministry in the court on the issue of Dr Aafia. Jaffery beseeched that the court should pass direction to the Federal government to write a letter to both, the US State Department and the US court, in defence of Aafia. He pleaded that the governments letter might clarify the point that Dr Aafia was kidnapped from Karachi along with her children and not from Afghanistan as alleged by the Americans. Aafia, who has been languishing in an American jail, badly needed Pakistan governments help, he added. Jaffery had moved the petition submitting that Dr Aafia was in fact kidnapped along with her three kids from Karachi. He stated that after the recovery and extradition of her little daughter Maryam in United States base in Afghanistan as confirmed by the Foreign and Interior ministries of Pakistan, it has been established that Aafia was abducted from Karachi. Had Aafia been arrested in Ghazni, both the US and Afghan governments would have informed the Pakistan Embassy in Kabul, he stated and submitted that either the Attorney General of Pakistan or someone else be directed to write to the United States District Court that Aafia in fact was kidnapped along with her three innocent children from Karachi by the FBI/CIA and was not arrested in Ghazni. He said the Pakistani government also failed to agitate the matter of Aafia before the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The government should immediately take some steps to help her before the District Court of the US announces its sentence in Aafia case, Jaffery said. On the last date of hearing, a Law Officer of the Federal Government had informed the court that it could not move the case of Aafia before the ICJ without seeking consent of America and Afghanistan, who are parties in the case. He had also said that Pakistan had international treaties, which barred it from doing so independently. He had also reiterated that Dr Afia was not arrested from Karachi but the American forces picked her up from Afghanistan.