KARACHI (AFP) - A female Pakistani neuroscientist was due in a US court Tuesday after being extradited to the United States on charges of shooting at American soldiers while in detention in Afghanistan.

The case of Aafia Siddiqui has caused outrage in Pakistan, where her family angrily insisted that the US-educated 36-year-old was innocent and accused US forces of secretly holding her for the last five years.

Siddiqui, who has three children, disappeared from the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi in 2003 and featured on a list of US suspects linked to Al-Qaeda the following year.

"What a mockery that after five years in detention Aafia is suddenly discovered in Afghanistan," her younger sister Fauzia Siddiqui told a news conference in Karachi.

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