January 18, 2017 9:10 PM

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Pakistan will not free doctor who helped US find bin Laden

Pakistan says, it will not free a jailed doctor who helped United States find bin Laden. In response to a query in Pakistan's Parliament about release of Dr. Shakil Afridi, who believed to have helped the U.S. <br/><br/>Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to hunt down al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, Pakistan's Law Minister Zahid Hamid said, the doctor will be neither released nor handed to the United States. He said Afridi had worked against the law and the national interest and the Government has repeatedly told United States that he committed a crime and is facing the law. <br/><br/>Pakistan has accused the doctor of running a fake vaccination campaign in which he collected DNA samples to help the CIA confirm bin Laden's identity. Afridi was arrested soon after the bin Laden raid and charged with having ties to militant Islamists, which he denied.

January 18, 2017 3:32 PM

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Pakistan will not free doctor who helped US find bin Laden

Pakistan says, it will not free a jailed doctor who helped United States find bin Laden. In response to a query in Pakistan's Parliament about release of Dr. Shakil Afridi, who believed to have helped the U.S. <br/><br/>Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to hunt down al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, Pakistan's Law Minister Zahid Hamid said, the doctor will be neither released nor handed to the United States. He said Afridi had worked against the law and the national interest and the Government has repeatedly told United States that he committed a crime and is facing the law. <br/><br/>Pakistan has accused the doctor of running a fake vaccination campaign in which he collected DNA samples to help the CIA confirm bin Laden's identity. Afridi was arrested soon after the bin Laden raid and charged with having ties to militant Islamists, which he denied.

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