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DAWN
| 12 months ago
Lawyers representing the Pakistani doctor jailed after helping the CIA find Osama bin Laden appealed against his conviction on Friday. Shakil Afridi was on May 24 sentenced to 33 years in jail under the system of tribal justice, worsening Pakistan's...
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India Abroad
| 12 months ago
Tahir Ali reports 'We have no contact with Afridi Last updated on: June 1, 2012 13:47 IST
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Indian Express
| 12 months ago
Last week, after Shakil Afridi was convicted by a court in the Khyber tribal region near the Afghan border, Pakistani officials said the decision was based on treason charges for helping CIA and conspiring against the state. After that announcement...
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The Hindu
| 12 months ago
Pakistani court documents say Dr. Shakil Afridi was jailed for his alleged links to Islamist militants, not for helping the U.S. track down Osama bin Laden A week after he was handed down 33 years in jail apparently for helping the Central...
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International Business Times
| 12 months ago
The Pakistan i Taliban has vowed to kill Shakeel Afridi, the Pakistan i doctor who has been accused of helping the CIA search for Osama bin Laden. "We will cut him into pieces when we find him," Ehsanullah Ehsan, a Pakistani Taliban spokesman, told...
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Fox News
| 12 months ago
Pakistan A Pakistani militant group has denied any links with the doctor who helped the U.S. track down Osama bin Laden, threatening Thursday to kill him for working with the Americans. The statement by Lashkar-e-Islam was the latest twist in the...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| 12 months ago
In a twist to a case that has angered Washington, the Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA hunt Osama bin Laden was convicted and jailed last week for supposed involvement with an Islamic militant group, not his work for American intelligence, court...
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Reuters
| 12 months ago
Topics Pakistani doctor Shakil Afridi talks with people outside a building at an unknown location in Pakistan in this still image taken from file footage released on May 23, 2012. In another twist to a case that is straining Islamabad's ties with...
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The Independent
| 12 months ago
Cambridge students are having trouble keeping out of the press recently...In the play Malvinas, islas de la memoria about the Malvinas / Falklands war, currently running at... Suggested Topics The controversy over the Pakistani doctor who helped the...
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India Abroad
| 12 months ago
Seeking a clarification from Pakistan, the United States on Wednesday said that it did not believe in the "story" that a Pakistani doctor, who helped the Central Intelligence Agency track Osama bin Laden [ Images ], was sentenced to 33-years in jail...
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National Public Radio
| 12 months ago
The Pakistani doctor who American officials say was recruited by the CIA to help in the hunt for Osama bin Laden, and has since been sentenced to 33 years in prison , was convicted of having ties to a banned militant group, not for alleged treason.
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The Guardian
| 12 months ago
Reuters The doctor who angered Pakistan 's powerful security agencies by helping the CIA hunt down Osama bin Laden was sentenced to 33 years in prison on the basis of flimsy intelligence suggesting he was involved in Islamist militancy, a document...
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The New York Times
| 12 months ago
May 30, 2012 Tribal court documents show that the Pakistani doctor who was sentenced to 33 years in prison after helping the Central Intelligence Agency track down Osama bin Laden, had not been charged with treason, as some Pakistani officials had...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 12 months ago
Last week, a court in the Khyber tribal region near the Afghan border jailed Shakil Afridi for 33 years . Pakistani officials told Western and domestic media the decision was based on treason charges for helping the CIA confirm the location of the Al...
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The Globe & Mail
| 12 months ago
A Pakistan doctor who assisted the CIA in tracking down Osama bin Laden was sentenced to 33 years in prison for conspiring with an Islamist militant commander, a verdict that could make it more difficult for Washington to argue for his release. The...
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DAWN
| 12 months ago
Pakistani authorities on Wednesday said that they feared the doctor recruited by the CIA to help find Osama bin Laden could be killed and demanded he be transferred to a more secure prison. Shakeel Afridi was last week sentenced to 33 years in jail...
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Fox News
| 12 months ago
FoxNews.com The Pakistani doctor sentenced to 33 years in prison for his role in the CIA mission to hunt down Usama bin Laden was formally accused not of aiding U.S. Islamic group, according to a judgment provided to Fox News. The document, which...
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Politico
| 12 months ago
Calling President Barack Obama an amateur on foreign policy, Rep. Allen West is blasting the administration for failing to secure the release of a Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA hunt down Osama bin Laden. West (R-Fla.) said Tuesday about Dr.
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India Abroad
| 12 months ago
The case of Pakistani doctor Shakeel Afridi took a new twist on Wednesday when a detailed order about his arrest and conviction stated that he has been punished for his links with a militant outfit, not for working with the Central Intelligence...
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DAWN
| 12 months ago
A conservative senator called on Tuesday for the United States to suspend all aid to Pakistan and grant citizenship to a doctor who was jailed for helping hunt down Osama bin Laden. American lawmakers have already sought to cut or freeze some...
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DAWN
| 12 months ago
US authorities said a Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA track down Osama bin Laden turned down an opportunity to leave his country and resettle overseas with his family, two US officials told Reuters on Tuesday. Dr Shakil Afridi was jailed last...
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The Gleaner
| 12 months ago
A 48-year-old Pakistani surgeon, Dr. Shakil Afridi, has been sentenced to 33 years in prison for treason specifically, for aiding the United States in the hunt for Osama bin Laden. His real crime was being guilty of a sin that Islamabad finds...
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DAWN
| 12 months ago
Such a trial has brought disgrace and shame to Pakistan when the prime minister himself conceded in his statement that whatever Dr Afridi did was wrong, but that he should get justice from normal courts, which implies that justice has not been done...
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Fox News
| 12 months ago
FoxNews.com A U.S. senator announced Tuesday he would introduce a bill stripping Pakistan of all foreign aid unless the doctor imprisoned for helping the CIA track Usama bin Laden is released. The Obama administration, meanwhile, appeared unwilling...
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The Age
| 12 months ago
Ben Doherty May 30, 2012 Read later Dr Shakeel Afridi: Jailed. Photo: Reuters THE doctor jailed for 33 years by a Pakistani court for his role in finding Osama bin Laden, was corrupt and lured by easy money, Pakistani government officials have...
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Washington Post
| 12 months ago
Shakil Afridi was found guilty of treason and sentenced to 33 years in prison under an archaic tribal justice system that has governed Pakistan's semi-autonomous tribal belt since British rule. Pakistan The tribal area of Pakistan, often described as...
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United Press International
| 12 months ago
The Pakistani doctor who helped the United States learn where Osama bin Laden was hiding has had his life threatened, intelligence sources in Pakistan said. The sources told GEO News that the head of the Peshawar jail where Dr. Shakil Afridi is...
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Fox News
| 12 months ago
FoxNews.com The Pakistani doctor sentenced last week to 33 years in prison for helping track Usama bin Laden suffered torture, isolation and starvation during his interrogation, his brother told Fox News -- as he made an appeal from the family for...
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Pak Tribune
| 12 months ago
The family of Dr Shakeel Afridi, who was convicted for helping the US in tracking al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, came out to defend him as his brother on Monday said the charges against him were 'a pack of lies'. "Our brother has been made a...
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India Abroad
| 12 months ago
The Taliban [ Images ] will either attack Peshawar prison, abduct Dr Shakil Afridi and let their leaders decide his fate, or they will use an inmate in the jail kill the doctor...T he Pakistani Taliban may attack the central jail in Peshawar to...
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The Hindustan Times
| 12 months ago
The Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA find Osama bin Laden faced accusations of corruption and other wrongdoing long before he was captured by Pakistani intelligence agents and then jailed for 33 years for treason. In interviews over the weekend,...
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DAWN
| 12 months ago
COM 1 hour ago A policeman walks past Central Jail in Peshawar on May 24, 2012. A plan, for shifting of Dr Shakil Afridi from Central Jail Peshawar to Punjab, has been finalised and all the law enforcement agencies have been put on high alert to...
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Washington Post
| 12 months ago
Pakistan The brother of Shakil Afridi, the Pakistani doctor sentenced by Pakistan to 33 years in prison for helping the CIA's search for Osama bin Laden, urged the United States on Monday to assist in Afridi's legal battle. The United States should...
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Pak Tribune
| 12 months ago
A high-level meeting will review security arrangements for jailed tribal physician Dr Shakeel Afridi, who was sentenced to 33-year imprisonment for helping the United States hunt Osama bin Laden last year. Official sources said on Sunday that the...
