Samiullah Afridi, counsel for Dr Shakil Afridi, on Saturday said his client could not be convicted for assisting CIA in the hunt for Osama bin Laden as Pakistan and the United States were allies in the War on Terror.
Talking to the BBC, he said that the Abbottabad Commission report had been cited in US media which had not been made public in Pakistan. He dismissed the report, saying it could not be trusted.
Moreover, he said that even if the media reports proved true, it made no difference since Afridi could not be convicted on the basis of the report.
“I had met Shakil Afridi 8 months ago. Since then I have been filing applications with jail authorities but I have not been allowed to meet my client so far,” he said.
According to him, even his client’s family was not allowed to meet him.
American media had claimed on the basis of certain parts of the report that Dr Shakil Afridi had been in contact with CIA for the last five years and he had been working with CIA as its spy.
It was further said that Dr Shakil had made a request to seek political asylum in US in the wake of deteriorating law and order situation in FATA.
Khyber Agency administration had awarded rigorous imprisonment for 33 years in jail under FCR on the charges of abetting the miscreants and conspiring against the security forces.
The accused had challenged his conviction through an application in the court of commissioner in Peshawar. The judgment in his case has been reserved till June 13.
Dr Shakil Afridi spied for a foreign power. Friend or foe; ally or enemy, that is treason in every country in the world.
He helped get OBL, ok but he still betrayed his homeland by spying for another nation. His actions humiliated his homeland, surely there was some other way to get OBL and save his home the humilation that followed from his actions.
Let the US give him citizenship. If an American had spied on behalf of Pakistan and been caught, they would jail him.
Let th US give him citizenship and let us still keep him in jail.
Comments are closed.