Peshawar: A political administration on Wednesday sentenced Dr Shakeel Afridi, a government surgeon who helped the CIA to uncover Osama bin Laden’s whereabouts, for 33 years in jail.
Sources said that the administration had sentenced him under FRC. The administration has also put Rs320,000 penalty on him.
The government of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa had earlier issued a notification of dismissal of Dr Shakeel Afridi.
CIA set up a fake vaccination campaign and hired Dr Afridi and seventeen other health officials in a bid to confirm the al Qaeda chief was living in Abbottabad.
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.
“He was not in any way treasonous towards Pakistan,” Panetta said while appearing in CBS television’s “60 Minutes” programme.
“For them to take this kind of action against somebody who was helping to go after terrorism, I just think is a real mistake on their part.”
Panetta said he believed someone in authority in Pakistan knew where Bin Laden was hiding and as a result Islamabad was not warned about the raid.
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