K-P government bars visitors from meeting Dr Shakil Afridi
Talking to The Express Tribune, Dr Afridi's brother Jamil Afridi said that he and the lawyer, Qamar Nadeem Afridi, were denied a meeting with the doctor when they went to visit him today.
Officials informed them that the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government had barred anyone from meeting Dr Afridi.
Jamil said that his family was expecting the government to take such measures following his brother's interview with Fox News.
The ban bars anyone, including relatives from meeting the controversial doctor, who was accused of spying for US’ Central Intelligence Agency to capture slain al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad.
Dr Afridi was accused of carrying out a fake anti-polio vaccination programme in the area in order to get DNA samples of bin Laden's family members living in the Abbottabad compound, where he was killed by Navy SEALs in a late night operation in May 2011.
He has stoutly negated all allegations against him and termed the case a fabrication of the Inter-Services Intelligence.
The doctor's family has met him four times since his arrest in May 2011. His two sisters had earlier met him for the first time in August this year.
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Seems like you never miss a chance to make a foolish mistake. You didn't give this guy a lawyer during his trial, your leaders didn't even know what crime he was being tried for, you denied his family visitation rights - the list goes on. The World is watching - the World is judging.
The damage is already done. Did you ever hear a squeek out of Aafia sidiqui?
Haha! look at us!! Looking Amreeka in the eye!! Fooled everyone into focusing on this guy, while no one is asking why the Abottabad commission has fallen silent or what OBL was doing in Pakistan for so long to begin with!