INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Authors: Jordan
FO denies deal to free Dr Shakil Afridi ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office has dismissed speculations
that Pakistan is negotiating the release of Dr Shakil Afridi who was sentenced to 33 years in jail on charges of involvement in anti-state
Mohammad in his weekly media briefing
The issue of Dr Afridi is being handled by the Interior Ministry, he said
Afridi is accused of running a fake anti-polio vaccination campaign which helped the United States track down Al Qaeda leader Osama bin
Days later, he was killed in a US military raid on Abbottabad compound in May 2011
The then CIA director Leon Panetta and US secretary of state Hillary Clinton had also confirmed the doctor's role in eliminating
Laden.Afridi was arrested and put on trial
Peshawar to Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi due to security concerns
