Aafia's son Ahmed marked 2011 as the year for the freedom for his mother by lighting Asia's largest torch, a P.TV correspondent reported on Monday.
There have been numerous rallies in the country over Siddiqui's case and her release has become a major national issue in Pakistan with protesters saying that the scientist trial in the US was a complete mockery of the legal process.
Siddiqui is being held at a prison in Carswell, Texas, described by her family members as one of the most notorious prisons in the world.
The Pakistani woman vanished in Karachi on March 30, 2003. It was reported in local newspapers the next day that she had been taken into custody on terrorism charges.
US officials claim Siddiqui was seized on July 17, 2008 by Afghan security forces in Ghazni Province and claim that documents, including formulas for explosives and chemical weapons, were found in her handbag.
The officials also accuse her of grabbing a US warrant officer's M4 rifle and firing two shots at FBI agents and military personnel during interrogation. She, however, has allegedly missed. The warrant officer then fired back, hitting her in the torso.
Human rights organizations, however, have cast doubt on the accuracy of the US account of the event.
Many political activists believe that Siddiqui was Prisoner 650 of the US detention facility in Bagram, Afghanistan, where they say she was tortured for five years. US authorities announced later on that they had found her in Afghanistan.
The demonstrators also demanded the Islamabad government to follow cases of those who went missing for pursuing the US-led war on terror in the country.
The human rights organizations have frequently slammed the US and the UK for helping Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in abducting more than 500 terror suspects in Pakistan and keeping them in secret prisons during the presidency of General Pervez Musharraf.
A UK lawyer claimed earlier in 2007 that Musharraf had allowed a large number of his compatriots to be held at the Guantanamo prison.
"Musharraf sold innocent people of his country as prisoners to the US Guantanamo Bay detention center in exchange for millions of dollars," British lawyer Zachary Katznelson said.
The protesters also called for an immediate end to the ongoing non-UN-sanctioned drone attacks in northwestern Pakistan, asking the Islamabad government to quit its alliance with the US in the so-called war on terror.
The airstrikes in Pakistan have increased since President Barack Obama took office in 2009.
Pakistan has suffered an intense wave of violence and thousands have been killed or displaced, since former military ruler Musharraf joined the so-called US war on terror following the 9/11 attacks.
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