Fate of Shakil Afridi , who helped US Forces hunt Osama

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A state has to act like a state in the first place. Pakistanis have been tricking their people and rest of the world for long. Legally the Doctor is non guilty because the very president of Pakistan on national TV announced just after 9/11 that they are siding with USA against WOT and appealed his people to support his decision. What doctor did was clearly an act of helping his nation who herself was officially helping USA.

The doctor's case is a case of a person who lives in nation who lies to everyone. This case particularly fits for our another running thread 'Curse being a Pakistani'. His decision to side with a cause finding OBL was supposed to be like this. If one watch Pakistani media carefully one can see people demanding their nation to come out clear on what exactly they are trying to achieve and do vis a vis WOT.
 

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The doctor will not spend 30+ years in prison. Yesterday a senate panel slashed aid to Pakistan for FY 2013. The panel cut aid by 58% and will cut more if Pakistan don't reopen the supply lines. Also the panel is debating on the elimination of all aid if Pakistan refuses to release the doctor.

This puts Pakistan in a tight position. Pakistan cannot afford to lose the aid we give them. No other country will pump billions into Pakistan, not even their good friends the Chinese. Pakistan will have to make a decision quickly if they want the aid to continue.
 

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Pakistan does have good reasons to charge him for treason.

He exposed the treacherous dog and pony show, to use an Americanism, Pakistan was playing.
 

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US quiet irritated : some comments :

While repeating the American demand for Dr Afridi's release, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated at a congressional hearing that there was no basis for Pakistan to hold Afridi. 'I think his work on behalf of the effort to take down Osama bin Laden was in Pakistan's interest, as well as American interest. We have made that view very well known. We will continue to press it,' Hillary Clinton said. She stated that the US is closely watching how Dr Afridi is being treated by Pakistan.

Clinton was responding to questions from US Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, who had introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives to award a rare Congressional Gold Medal to Dr Afridi.

'If they do not let Afridi go, let me just put everybody on notice and I believe that we're going to be watching this closely --there is nothing that could suggest that Pakistan is cooperating with us in the fight against terrorism when they have Afridi --the man who helped us get Osama bin Laden -- in prison and are treating him this way. That is their decision of non-cooperation,' Rohrabacher said.
 

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Is Dana Rohrbacher, our Blackwater's relative or something ?
 

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U.S. senators penalize Pakistan for jailing doctor who aided CIA

U.S. senators penalize Pakistan for jailing doctor who aided CIA | Reuters

(Reuters) - U.S. senators scandalized by Pakistan's jailing of a doctor for helping the CIA find Osama bin Laden voted on Thursday to cut aid to Islamabad by $33 million -- one million for each year in the doctor's sentence.

"It's arbitrary, but the hope is that Pakistan will realize we are serious," said Senator Richard Durbin after the unanimous 30-0 vote by the Senate Appropriations Committee.

"It's outrageous that they (the Pakistanis) would say a man who helped us find Osama bin Laden is a traitor," said Durbin, the Senate's number two Democrat.

The amendment was offered by Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican, and Senator Patrick Leahy, a Democrat. Earlier in the week an appropriations subcommittee slashed aid to Islamabad and warned it would withhold more if Pakistan does not reopen supply routes for NATO soldiers in neighboring Afghanistan.

The Pakistani doctor, Shakil Afridi, was sentenced to 33 years in jail Wednesday on charges of treason. He was accused of running a fake vaccination campaign, in which he collected DNA samples, that is believed to have helped the American intelligence agency track down bin Laden in a Pakistani town.

The al Qaeda leader was killed in the town of Abbottabad a year ago in a unilateral U.S. special forces raid that heavily damaged ties between Islamabad and Washington. Since then, there have been growing calls in the U.S. Congress to cut off some or all of U.S. aid.

Pakistan has been one of the leading recipients of U.S. foreign aid in recent years. Even after the cuts voted this week it still would receive about $1 billion in fiscal 2013, if the full Senate and House of Representatives approve.

(Reporting by Susan Cornwell)
 

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Crossposting from BR

The sweet sound of the lone superpower's impotence - a piddly 33 m cut from aid to pakiland. Pakis are 'in your face' to the tlp (the lone superpower) by calling the doctor's imprisonment as a punishment for 'treason'. OBL kills 3000 americans, tlp rages and rants and vows revenge. for years and years OBL becomes the most sought after criminal/terrorist for tlp. then a paki doctor helps tlp find OBL. this act should warrant the highest civilian honor (the medal of 'freeeeedom' from the undisputed beacon of freeeeedom, tlp) for the paki doctor. Instead, he gets slammed into the prison for 33 years under a charge of 'treason'. and the mighty lone superpower gives a fitting reply to paki perfidy. a whopping 33 million dollars cut from the aid. if this is the 'lakshan' of a superpower, the lone superpower with a million missiles and stealth bombers and nucular weapons, then jai ho to that superpower.

:laugh::laugh::laugh:
I fully agree with him.
 

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US senators say Pakistan on path of confrontation

US senators say Pakistan on path of confrontation - NY Daily News

May 24--WASHINGTON (Dawn/ANN) -- US lawmakers warned yesterday that Pakistan was moving rapidly on a path leading to a direct confrontation with the world's sole superpower as Pakistan convicted and sentenced a man considered a hero in America.

On Tuesday, a US Senate panel voted to cut aid to Pakistan by 58 per cent in fiscal 2013 and threatened to withhold even more cash if Islamabad did not reopen Nato supply routes.

"Shocking and outrageous," said Senators John McCain and Carl Levin -- one a senior Republican, the other a senior Democrat -- as a tribal court in Pakistan sentenced Dr Shakil Afridi to 33 years in prison for the crime of treason.

The United States saw "no basis" for continuing to hold Dr Afridi, said US State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland.

In Tuesday's vote, senators endorsed the administration's request for $1 billion for Pakistan, including $800 million in foreign aid. But funding for the Pakistan Counter-insurgency Capability Fund was reduced to just $50 million, and subjected to the reopening of supply lines.

The decision came two days after a Nato summit in Chicago where Pakistan annoyed the United States and its allies by refusing to reopen ground routes for supplying their forces in Afghanistan.

"It is shocking and outrageous that Dr Afridi, the Pakistani doctor who assisted the United States in the search for Osama bin Laden, has been sentenced to 33 years in prison for the crime of treason," observed Senators McCain and Levin.

"We call upon the Pakistani government to pardon and release Dr Afridi immediately. At a time when the United States and Pakistan need more than ever to work constructively together, Dr Afridi's continuing imprisonment and treatment as a criminal will only do further harm to US-Pakistani relations, including diminishing Congress's willingness to provide financial assistance to Pakistan," they warned.

State Department's Victoria Nuland noted at a news briefing in Washington that US secretaries of State and Defence had addressed this issue in the past, pointing out that they saw no basis for holding Dr Afridi in prison.

The United States, she said, had regularly taken up the issue of Dr Afridi with Pakistan, and "will continue to do so".

The State Department official, however, refused to comment on the sentencing.
 

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US cuts aid to Pakistan by 58% in fiscal 2013


WASHINGTON: A US Senate panel voted cuts in aid to Pakistan on Wednesday and threatened to withhold even more cash if Islamabad does not reopen its supply routes for Nato soldiers in Afghanistan, reflecting American frustration over a months-long standoff.

The action by the Senate appropriations subcommittee on foreign aid followed a weekend Nato summit in Chicago at which Washington had hoped to reach a deal with Islamabad to end the supply line dispute.Pakistan closed the supply routes through its territory to Afghanistan in protest when US aircraft killed 24 Pakistani soldiers along the Afghan border last November.The Senate panel voted to cut aid to Pakistan by 58% in fiscal 2013 from the request by the administration of US President Barack Obama, said the panel's chairman, Senator Patrick Leahy, who is a Democrat.

The senators voted $1 billion for Pakistan, including $800 million in foreign aid. However, funding for the Pakistan Counterinsurgency Capability Fund was limited to just $50 million, and that money was tied to the supply lines' reopening, said Senator Lindsey Graham, the panel's top Republican.

"We're not going to be giving money to an ally that won't be an ally," Graham told reporters.The counterinsurgency fund was established several years ago to help train and equip Pakistan's military.
The panel's spending blueprint must still be approved by the full Senate and the House of Representatives before it can become law. But criticism of Pakistan in Congress and demands for a complete aid cutoff have been growing, especially after Osama bin Laden was found and killed by US forces in Abbottabad a little more than a year ago.

Pakistan has been one of the leading recipients of US foreign aid and in recent years US lawmakers have approved more than $20 billion in aid and reimbursements since 2001.

The administration suspended $800 million in aid for Pakistan's military last year but American officials have suggested the aid could be restored if Pakistan would display more commitment to counter-terrorism operations.

US hopes for breakthrough in Pakistan NATO supply route talks

The US hopes Pakistan will soon agree to re-open supply routes to Nato troops in Afghanistan, a US official said on Wednesday. "Talks are ongoing and we hope to reach a resolution soon," he told Reuters.

The official said fees for use of the routes which Pakistan is demanding are under discussion in talks currently focused on technical issues.

Pakistani officials have denied press reports that Islamabad has been holding up progress in the talks by demanding unreasonably high supply route fees.

"These are complex issues under discussion with a range of topics," one of the officials told Reuters. "I cannot say if there will be a deal tomorrow, next week or the week after. It will be resolved when it is resolved."
 

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The amendment was offered by Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican, and Senator Patrick Leahy, a Democrat. Earlier in the week an appropriations subcommittee slashed aid to Islamabad and warned it would withhold more if Pakistan does not reopen supply routes for NATO soldiers in neighboring Afghanistan.
Good to see Leahy do something like this.
 

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33 million? A million for each year? really? ooh, thats gotta hurt indeed !
 

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This will add to the Doom and Gloom in Pakistan.
 

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at first did cia tell him that they were targeting laden??

highly unlikely. no intelligence agencies will reveal their plans to 3rd parties. even the vaccination campaign conducted by cia could be in name of some voluntary organization. i doubt the doctor had any knowledge regarding this. poor guy got trapped


i have a doubt.is pak govt protecting him from Taliban????
 

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Appeal over Pakistan doctor's bin Laden conviction

AFP: Appeal over Pakistan doctor's bin Laden conviction

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistani lawyers said Friday they would appeal the conviction for treason handed down by a tribal court to a surgeon recruited by US intelligence to help find Osama bin Laden.

The archaic form of justice that governs Pakistan's semi-autonomous tribal belt on Wednesday jailed Shakeel Afridi for 33 years for agreeing to try and collect DNA for US intelligence in their bid to locate bin Laden.

Afridi ran a fake vaccination programme designed to collect bin Laden family DNA from the compound in the town of Abbottabad, where the Al-Qaeda leader was shot dead in a US raid in May 2011.

"We have requested the Khyber administration to provide us with the documents related to the trial and conviction, and once we get them, we will file an appeal in the office of the commissioner of the Frontier Crimes Regulation," lawyer Samiullah Afridi told AFP.

The lawyer, general secretary of the Peace Movement, a civil society group against militancy, said his organisation did not believe the doctor committed any crime, but had instead worked "to help eliminate terrorism".

The surgeon Afridi's jailing has exasperated the US, where the Senate Appropriations Committee has voted to cut US aid to Pakistan by a symbolic $33 million -- $1 million for each year of jail time.

The measure, an amendment to the $52 billion US foreign aid budget, passed in a 30-0 vote in a sign of growing frustration with Pakistan.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the sentence was "unjust and unwarranted", saying Afridi was "instrumental in taking down one of the world's most-wanted murderers".
 

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Pak tribunal upholds conviction of doctor who tracked Osama - The Times of India

PESHAWAR: A Pakistani tribunal on Saturday upheld the conviction of Shakil Afridi, the doctor who helped the CIA track down al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, but reduced his 33 years sentence by 10 years.

The Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) Tribunal had sentenced Afridi to 33 years in jail and also levied a Rs 3,20,000 fine in 2012.

The term was challenged by Afridi's lawyers and a decision to this effect was reserved on February 15 this year by the Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR) Commissioner.

In today's verdict, the FCR Commissioner upheld the old judgement but reduced his sentence by 10 years.

Afridi's lawyer Sami Ullah said the decision was unexpected and they would appeal against it in the Fata tribunal.

The doctor, who was arrested immediately after the May 2, 2011 operation by US commandos that killed bin Laden, was convicted for treason over alleged ties to banned militant group Lashkar-e-Islam.

Bin Laden was killed in the unilateral US commando raid in Abbottabad, sending bilateral relations into a tailspin and embarrassing Pakistan's powerful military.

Afridi is currently being held at the central prison in Peshawar.

It is said that Afridi ran a fake vaccination camp to gain access to bin Laden's family but legal experts and rights activists have challenged his sentence. The US has also been pressing Pakistan to release Afridi.

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Al Bakis should be thankful to this Afridi guy, instead he has been treated as traitor :doh: :doh: :doh:
 

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