Health workers linked to CIA's bin Laden scheme reinstated

Workers were suspended by government for not informing authorities about Dr Shakil Afridi's fake vaccination...


Web Desk March 14, 2013
Hideout house of slain al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden. PHOTO: AFP/ FILE

17 health workers were reinstated by a Pakistani court on Thursday after having been fired last year for alleged involvement in the US Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) plot to confirm the presence of Osama bin Laden in Abbotabad, Associated Press reported.

Lawyer Javed Awan said the court order reinstated 16 female health workers and one male worker who were suspended by a government health department for not informing authorities about Dr Shakil Afridi’s fake vaccination campaign.

Dr Afridi had been working with the CIA for years before the Bin Laden raid, providing intelligence on militant groups in Pakistan’s tribal region. He was sentenced to 33 years in prison last year in May for his links to a banned militant group.

Awan further said the health workers were following orders from senior health officials and were innocent of any wrongdoing.

“The court has done justice to them,” he said.

COMMENTS (2)

Roni | 11 years ago | Reply

Now the outgoing govt has no fear of the army takeover so there is no need to keep these innocent people out of work. On your way out it would be nice to publish the Abbottabad Commission Report otherwise it would be like Rehman report and never come out. The establishment is expert in keeping the facts from the naive Pakistani public.

MJ | 11 years ago | Reply

Fake workers hired by a puppet government in charge of a failed state looking for a mythical terrorist. Next you are going to tell me that we are not living in a matrix.

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