Controversial Cia Scheme: Court reinstates 17 health workers

A court reinstated on Thursday health workers who were fired last year for allegedly participating in a CIA scheme to confirm the presence of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, a defense lawyer said, according to the Associated Press.

Lawyer Javed Awan said the court order affected 16 female health workers and one male whom a government health department suspended last year for failing to inform authorities about Dr Shakil Afridi’s fake vaccination campaign.

The health workers insist they did not know Afridi was working for the CIA.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 15^th, 2013.