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Pakistani Doctor Who Hunted Bin Laden Accused of Murder
Source: Bloomberg
Pakistani Doctor Who Hunted Bin Laden Accused of Murder
By Khurrum Anis & Faseeh Mangi - Nov 22, 2013 11:25 AM ET
A Pakistani doctor who helped the U.S. track down Osama bin Laden faces charges in a murder case after a woman accused him of causing the death of her son from an operation six years ago, a defense lawyer said.
A court in the Khyber tribal region along the border with Afghanistan has registered a case based on the complaint by the woman against the doctor, Shakil Afridi, his lawyer Samiullah Afridi said by phone from the city of Peshawar.
Doctor Afridi already is imprisoned after being sentenced to 33 years in jail in 2012 for providing funding and medical assistance to the militants of the now-defunct group Lashkar-e-Islami. He hasn’t been charged for covert ties to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency that the Pakistani government denounced.
U.S. and Pakistani officials have said Afridi ran a fake vaccination program in Abbottabad, the Pakistani town where bin Laden hid for as long as five years, in a bid to obtain a DNA sample from those living in the compound where bin Laden was shot dead by Navy SEALs in 2011.
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By Khurrum Anis & Faseeh Mangi - Nov 22, 2013 11:25 AM ET
A Pakistani doctor who helped the U.S. track down Osama bin Laden faces charges in a murder case after a woman accused him of causing the death of her son from an operation six years ago, a defense lawyer said.
A court in the Khyber tribal region along the border with Afghanistan has registered a case based on the complaint by the woman against the doctor, Shakil Afridi, his lawyer Samiullah Afridi said by phone from the city of Peshawar.
Doctor Afridi already is imprisoned after being sentenced to 33 years in jail in 2012 for providing funding and medical assistance to the militants of the now-defunct group Lashkar-e-Islami. He hasn’t been charged for covert ties to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency that the Pakistani government denounced.
U.S. and Pakistani officials have said Afridi ran a fake vaccination program in Abbottabad, the Pakistani town where bin Laden hid for as long as five years, in a bid to obtain a DNA sample from those living in the compound where bin Laden was shot dead by Navy SEALs in 2011.
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Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-22/pakistani-doctor-who-hunted-bin-laden-accused-of-murder.html