Express Tribune: Dr Shakil Afridi, a government surgeon who helped the CIA uncover Osama bin Laden’s whereabouts, was sentenced to 33 years for treason, officials confirmed.
According to sources, Afridi has been moved to the Peshawar Central Jail.
Afridi, who was sacked as a government doctor two months ago, was found guilty under the tribal justice system in Khyber district, part of Pakistan’s semi-autonomous tribal belt.
In January, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta confirmed Afridi had aided US intelligence by collecting DNA to verify Bin Laden’s presence, and expressed concern about Pakistan’s treatment of him.
Seventeen other health officials, who worked on the same fake vaccination program set up by the CIA in a bid to confirm the al Qaeda chief was living in Abbottabad, have already been sacked from their government posts.
Let’s hope for him that his CIA salary continues while he is detained.
Why did the Americans not take him to the USA in time?
USA might be planning how to get him released. Just as it did for Raymond Davis…
Well, Raymond Davis was American. let’s wait and see…. probably they will continue to try to help him in order to ‘encourage future CIA cooperation’ …
Pakistan allowed American citizen free and sentenced its own citizen for 33 years.
The first thing USA has done for Dr Afridi is to cut aid to Pakistan.