The government on Thursday sacked a government surgeon recruited by the CIA to help find Osama bin Laden, officials said, amid calls for him to face treason charges.
Doctor Shakeel Afridi, who is in custody, was fired on disciplinary grounds by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government. “The government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has issued a notification of dismissal of Dr Shakeel Afridi,” provincial Health Secretary Ashfaq Khan told AFP. Seventeen other medics who worked on the same fake vaccination programme 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, he added. Fifteen women health workers were dismissed last August, and a woman doctor and an assistant coordinator were sacked on March 17, Khan told AFP. Afridi, who worked for years as a government surgeon in Khyber Agency, is in police custody and a panel investigating the bin Laden raid has recommended that he be put on trial for treason.
Officials believe Afridi may have known about bin Laden’s presence in Abbottabad and shared the information with US intelligence agents. British newspaper The Guardian reported last July that Afridi set up a fake vaccination programme in the hope of obtaining DNA samples from the house where the CIA suspected bin Laden was living. The United States was not 100 percent sure that the Al-Qaeda chief was living in the Abbottabad house when President Barack Obama gave the approval for Navy SEALs to raid the compound on May 2. The Guardian said the doctor had been recruited by the CIA for an elaborate scheme to vaccinate residents for hepatitis B, a ploy to get a DNA sample from those living in the house to see if they were bin Laden family members.
Regardless of OBL’s title as international terrorist, why would Doc be charged with treason while Pak army and Govt. was supposedly working towards the same goals? If this rational is to be applied then ISI, army and government senior officials should be charged with similar too as I find it very hard to believe that a foreign force can come so deep in Pak’s territory and next to base without their help. Sorry doctor, you should have kept relations within the ranks lol
100 percent Treason now I understand why as a British national I couldn't do the. CSS, sorry but if you put ur faith in another country over your own it is treason, as far as OBL being an international terrorist do u honestly think he did it for tht FBI had a bounty on his head the DR probably got paid loads
ISI beat the shit out of him
And hiding a criminal on the run was well inline with the nationalistic spirit and the laws of the country?
Get over this myopic version of your religion, and Thank you Dr. Afridi for a job well done.
Tie him tight and hang him high.
USA would have done the same if an ISI or KGB agent done similar inside USA!
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