The ISI chief said that “the chapter of Dr Shakeel Afridi has been closed” and that Pakistan would never hand him over to the US.
Afridi ran a bogus vaccination programme designed to collect DNA samples from the bin Laden family when they were residing in the Abbottabad compound, where the al Qaeda leader was shot dead in a US raid in May 2011.
A tribal court in FATA had sentenced Dr Afridi to 33 years for agreeing to try and collect DNA sample for US intelligence in their bid to locate Osama.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 2nd, 2012.
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@Riaz Khan: Dear Riaz Khan., Thank you for your reply in which you called me Mr. Blake; perhaps a sign of politeness. However, you did say' "please talk sense", which was somewhat of a downer. If you explained which part or parts you disagreed with, it may be possible for me to expand my missive to a point you may find acceptable or even get to agree with? Another aspect to this relatively unimportant matter is that we could, as Mr. Christopher Morley once wrote, indulge ourselves in "endless delicious minutiae".
Mr. Blake, please talk sense!
Lieutenant General Islam Is being very clear about the Abbottabad incident in which Dr. Afridi colluded. If the good doctor is allowed to go to America he will obviously be feted and generously paid out by the Americans. The Government can hardly be expected to allow every, Tom, Dick and Harry to become intelligence agents for foreign powers, and then be subsequently rewarded by those foreign powers. The doctor is fortunate. In many countries people are executed for lesser crimes. Also, when the heat goes out of this case, his sentence will probably be reduced substantially.
What a contradiction, who is aiding terrorism and was protecting Osama Bin Laden! The statement of ISI Chief is very clear and does not take a genius to understand the role played by ISI and our Military.