Health authorities in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa have ordered disciplinary action against 11 accomplices of Dr Shakil Afridi, who is accused of collaborating with the US and helping it track down former al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
Last year, British newspaper the Guardian reported that the CIA launched a fake vaccination drive in Abbottabad to gather the DNA information of Bin Laden’s family.
It said that Khyber Agency surgeon Dr Afridi, under the pretext of a private polio vaccination campaign, launched a CIA-sponsored programme to trace the al Qaeda leader in Abbottabad.
In an order issued by the provincial health department, nine lady health workers, a medical officer and a female staff member of the national programme on family planning and primary health from Abbottabad have been suspended in relation to the fake vaccination campaign run by Dr Afridi.
A senior official of the health department confirmed that the names of these individuals had been sent to the EDO health Abbottabad and would face an inquiry.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 20th, 2012.
COMMENTS (4)
Comments are moderated and generally will be posted if they are on-topic and not abusive.
For more information, please see our Comments FAQ
1731907834-0/Jonathan-Majors-and-Meagan-Good-(2)1731907834-0-405x300.webp "article")
1731906859-0/Jonathan-Majors-and-Meagan-Good-(1)1731906859-0-165x106.webp "article")
1724657897-0/Untitled-design-(2)1724657897-0-165x106.webp "article")
1728020241-0/Express-Tribune-Web-(12)1728020241-0-270x192.webp "pti says nov 24 will decide who stays in party")
@Pakistani Hindu:
OBL drama is the incompetence of pakistani media which cant prove that it was the second biggest scam after 9/11 even with all the evidence available.
yar that is why there are so many resistances to the vacination drives in the tribal areas, cause of the suspection that they are sponsored by CIA which has now even reinforced. did dr afridi never contacted the paksitani authorities about the info and went directly to CIA or did he went to them after realising that the authorities will just shield him(OB)?
The fake polio drive has caused great harm to Pakistan as people were suspicious of it to begin with, the mullahs were warning people that the CIA was injecting impotency drugs in the immunizations, resulting in the spread of polio, now the Mullahs will have been vindicated even though differently but with CIA involvement people are less inclined to take benefit from future polio vaccination drives, this is the fault of the CIA and its a criminal fault.
The CIA should be ashamed of itself for hurting vaccination efforts and tainting them forever in a part of the world already afraid of them.
any wonder Pakistani generations are hating the US? who can blame them....
Tracing OBL in Abbottabad is the height of CIA's competence. Salute to both Dr. Afridi and CIA.