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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
A Pakistani health worker marks a child after immunisation with anti-polio drops in Lahore, Pakistan. Photograph: AP Photo/KM Chaudary I was in New York on 11 September 2001, standing near one of the TV screens in the media section of Unicef's...
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DAWN
| 1 year ago
Mindful of the threat to the life of Dr Shakil Afridi, the CIA spy convicted and jailed for 33 years on treason charges, KPK authorities are considering shifting Afridi to a safer place away from Central Prison Peshawar. An official source told dawn.
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The Independent
| 1 year ago
There's a common outrage, a common response wherever you look," said Carl Levin, chairman of the US Senate's armed services committee...The good senator was responding to the news that Pakistan has jailed the doctor who ran a fake vaccination...
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War In Context
| 1 year ago
A by News Sources on May 26, 2012 Glenn Greenwald writes : Americans of all types Democrats and Republicans , even some Good Progressives are just livid that a Pakistani tribal court (reportedly in consultation with Pakistani officials) has imposed a...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
May 25, 2012 Tensions rose higher between Pakistan and the United States this week after a tribal court gave a long prison term to a Pakistani doctor who tried to help U.S. forces gather information about Osama bin Laden. American forces later...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 1 year ago
Ben Doherty May 26, 2012 Read later A boy leaves the house of Pakistani surgeon Shakeel Afridi, who was working for CIA to help find Osama bin Laden...On Wednesday, Pakistan sentenced Shakeel Afridi to 33 years in prison for treason, after he helped...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
This week's sentencing of Shakil Afridi, a Paksitani doctor who helped the CIA hunt down Osama bin Laden, to 33 years in prison for alleged treason has added new strains to Pakistan's already problematic relationship with the United States. The...
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Fox News
| 1 year ago
FoxNews.com Top Pakistani government officials say the prison sentence for the doctor who helped the CIA track down Usama bin Laden is a payback by the country's top military officials angry about the raid happening under their noses and that the...
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DAWN
| 1 year ago
Pakistani lawyers said Friday they would appeal the conviction for treason handed down by a tribal court to a surgeon recruited by US intelligence to help find Osama bin Laden. A tribal court in Khyber Wednesday jailed Shakeel Afridi for 33 years for...
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Pak Tribune
| 1 year ago
Pakistan's problematic relationship with the United States sailed into fresh controversy on Thursday as US lawmakers warned of aid cuts after the jailing of a surgeon who helped the CIA hunt down Osama bin Laden. Shakeeel Afridi was found guilty of...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 1 year ago
Shakil Afridi was given a 33 year prison sentence for treason after helping the US confirm bin Laden was living in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad. The doctor conducted a fake polio vaccination drive to obtain DNA samples from the residents of the...
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Voice of America
| 1 year ago
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says "significant differences" remain over Iran's nuclear program following two days of talks in Baghdad. She also says Pakistan's conviction of a doctor who helped in the capture of Osama bin Laden is "unjust."...
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| 1 year ago
Senate panel expressed its outrage Thursday over Pakistan's conviction of a doctor who helped the country track down Osama bin Laden, cutting aid to Islamabad by $33 million $1 million for every year of the physician's 33-year sentence for high...
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Leader Post Online
| 1 year ago
America is to cut $33 million from the aid sent to Pakistan in response to the jailing of a Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA hunt for Osama bin Laden. In a fresh blow to the troubled relationship between the two "war on terror" allies, congressmen...
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The Hindustan Times
| 1 year ago
US senators scandalized by Pakistan's jailing of a doctor for helping the CIA find Osama bin Laden voted on Thursday to cut aid to Islamabad by 33 million dollars -- one million for each year in the doctor's sentence. "It's arbitrary, but the hope...
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The Tribune
| 1 year ago
Pakistan hands 33-year sentence to doctor who helped CIA track bin Laden Pakistan hands 33-year sentence to doctor who helped CIA track bin Laden The Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA in the hunt for Osama bin Laden was sentenced to 33 years in...
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Guardian Unlimited
| 1 year ago
Qazi Rauf/PA A US senate committee has voted to cut Pakistan 's aid by $1m for each of the 33 years of a prison sentence given to a doctor for helping the CIA to track down Osama bin Laden. The appropriations committee unanimously approved the $33m...
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Fox News
| 1 year ago
FoxNews.com The Obama administration is pushing back on an accusation it revealed the identity of the Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA track down Usama bin Laden. A senior administration official told Fox News on Thursday that Pakistan exposed Dr.
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DAWN
| 1 year ago
Pakistan's jailing of a doctor for 33 years for helping the CIA find Osama bin Laden is unjust and unwarranted, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Thursday, vowing to continue to press the case with Islamabad. The United States does not...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 1 year ago
Outraged over the prosecution of a Pakistani doctor for helping the CIA find Osama bin Laden, a US Senate panel on Thursday voted unanimously to cut aid to Pakistan by $33 million, or $1 million for each of the physician's 33-year prison sentence.
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Epoch Times
| 1 year ago
May 24, 2012 Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) (L) and ranking member Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) talk during a hearing on Capitol Hill Feb. 16. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee on...
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Chicago Tribune
| 1 year ago
A policeman walks past Central Jail in Peshawar May 24, 2012. Pakistani authorities have sentenced the doctor accused of helping the CIA find Osama bin Laden to 33 years in jail on charges of treason, officials said, a move that drew angry...
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Russia Today
| 1 year ago
The Pentagon has expressed 'deepest regret' for a deadly attack on Pakistani troops, saying mistakes led to the air strike that claimed 24 lives...A day after Pakistan sentenced a doctor who helped catch Osama bin Laden to 33 years in prison, the US...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 1 year ago
A US senators scandalized by Pakistan's jailing of a doctor for helping the CIA find Osama bin Laden voted on Thursday to cut aid to Islamabad by $33 million, one million for each year in the doctor's sentence. "It's arbitrary, but the hope is that...
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Politico
| 1 year ago
Angered by the prosecution of a Pakistani doctor for helping the CIA locate Osama bin Laden, the Senate Appropriations Committee voted Thursday to cut another $33 million from an already much-reduced military aid package: $1 million for each of the...
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Arab News
| 1 year ago
Pakistan has sentenced Dr. Shakil Afridi to 33 years rigorous imprisonment on treason charges. He has been charged with spying for the Americans that led to the killing of Osama Bin Laden in Abbottabad on May 2 last year. Afridi, a resident of Khyber...
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BBC South Asia
| 1 year ago
The Pakistani doctor who allegedly used a fake hepatitis C vaccination campaign to obtain DNA samples of Osama Bin Laden's family in Abbottabad a year ago may have become an unsuspecting pawn in the intelligence war between the United States and...
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Star Tribune
| 1 year ago
A Senate panel expressed its outrage over the conviction of a Pakistani doctor who helped the U.S. get Osama bin Laden by slashing aid by $33 million $1 million for every year of the doctor's 33-year sentence. The Appropriations Committee approved...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 1 year ago
Pakistan on Thursday rejected US criticism over jailing a doctor who helped the CIA to hunt down Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, saying Washington should respect decisions of the country's courts. A court in Pakistan's Khyber tribal region on...
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DAWN
| 1 year ago
Shakil Afridi is a Pakistani doctor who allegedly ran a fake vaccine programme, however, in real was collecting DNA samples to assist the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in tracking Osama bin Laden. According to a news report in BBC, Afridi was...
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India Abroad
| 1 year ago
W ith his fate sealed, Dr Afridi was moved to the Peshawar central jail as soon as the verdict was announced. He has been sentenced despite repeated demands by the Obama administration that the doctor be freed and sent to the United States. While...
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DAWN
| 1 year ago
O The compound in the Pakistani garrison city of Abbottabad where Osama bin Laden was killed in a raid by US forces on May 2, 2011. The United States should respect a Pakistan court's decision to imprison a doctor accused of helping the CIA find...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 1 year ago
The United States should respect a Pakistan court's decision to imprison a doctor accused of helping the CIA find Osama bin Laden, the Pakistan foreign ministry spokesperson said on Thursday. "I think as far as the case of Mr. Afridi is concerned, it...
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NY Daily News
| 1 year ago
Aqeel Ahmed/AP Raid on this compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. where Osama Bin Laden was killed, was made possible by Dr. Shakil Afridi...The man is a doctor, Shakil Afridi, who worked with the CIA to set up a fake vaccination program in Abbottabad.
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The Journal Gazette
| 1 year ago
Pakistan A doctor who helped the CIA hunt down Osama bin Laden was convicted Wednesday of conspiring against the state and sentenced to 33 years in prison, adding new strains to an already deeply troubled relationship between the U.S. and Pakistan. U.
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Two senior U.S. senators said foreign aid to Pakistan could be jeopardized by the long prison sentence given a Pakistani doctor who helped find Osama bin Laden ...Carl Levin , D-Mich., and John McCain , R-Ariz., said in a joint statement Wednesday...
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The independent
| 1 year ago
Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, being held without being charge and without trial by the Israeli ... As someone who is interested in feminism as a movement, I was pleased to find out about RadFem2012 -... Suggested Topics A Pakistani doctor who...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 1 year ago
The Obama administration on Wednesday said there was no basis for Pakistan to hold a doctor who ran a fake vaccination campaign for the CIA to help find Osama bin Laden. "We continue to see no basis for (Shakil) Afridi to be held," State Department...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
US to press for release of Pakistani doctor who helped find Bin Laden State department says there is 'no basis' for Shakil Afridi's 33-year sentence for his part in fake CIA vaccine drive Shakil Afridi was convicted of treason over the scheme to...
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Epoch Times
| 1 year ago
May 23, 2012 Local residents watch ongoing demolition of the compound where Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was slain last year in the northwestern town of Abbottabad. (Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty Images) The doctor who helped the CIA locate al-Qaeda...
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Zee News
| 1 year ago
At a time when the US and Pakistan need more than ever to work constructively together, Afridi's continuing imprisonment and treatment as a criminal will only do further harm to US-Pakistani relations, including diminishing Congress's willingness to...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Osama bin Laden was tracked down with help from Dr Shakil Afridi, above, who was arrested soon after US commandos raided al-Qaida leader's compound in Abottabad. Photograph: Qazi Rauf/PA For some Americans the Pakistani doctor who worked on a...
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Mail Online UK
| 1 year ago
23 May 2012 The Pakistani doctor who played a pivotal role in the hunting down of Osama Bin Laden was jailed for 33 years today after being convicted of treason. The extraordinary sentence was being seen by Western officials in Pakistan's capital...
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USA Today
| 1 year ago
Pakistani doctor who helped U.S. find bin Laden is jailed Updated The Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA locate Osama bin Laden has been convicted of treason and sent to prison, the BBC and other news organizations are reporting. A tribal court...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 1 year ago
Pakistani doctor, accused of helping CIA reach the doorsteps of al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, was on Wednesday handed down a 33-year rigorous imprisonment for committing treason under the British-era tribal laws. Shakil Afridi was accused of...
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Chicago Tribune
| 1 year ago
A Pakistani doctor accused of helping the CIA find Osama bin Laden has been jailed for 33 years for treason, officials said, a move likely to deepen strains in ties between Washington and Islamabad . Shakil Afridi was accused of running a fake...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
A Pakistan i doctor who helped the CIA find Osama Bin Laden has been sentenced to 33 years in jail for treason, officials say...US secretary of state Hillary Clinton is calling for Afridi's release, saying the work he did benefited both the US and...
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International Herald Tribune
| 1 year ago
Pakistan A Pakistani doctor who helped the Central Intelligence Agency locate Osama Bin Laden through a fake vaccination campaign in the city of Abbottabad was convicted on Wednesday of treason and sentenced to 33 years in prison, a senior official...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 1 year ago
Nasir Khan says Shakil Afridi was also ordered on Wednesday to pay a fine of about $US3500 ($A3500). If he does not pay, he will spend another three and half years in prison. Khan is a government official in Pakistan's Khyber tribal area, where...
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DAWN
| 1 year ago
A Pakistani surgeon allegedly recruited by the CIA to help find Osama bin Laden was jailed on Wednesday for 33 years for treason, officials said. Shakeel Afridi, who was sacked as a government doctor two months ago, was found guilty under the tribal...
