RAWALPINDI – Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail security has been enhanced – whereDr Shakil Afridi is imprisoned.
According to jail sources, an anti-aircraft gun has also been installed atthe prison, and additional security personnel have been deployed separatelyfor Afridi’s security.
Dr Shakeel Afridi was put behind bars over his role in the killing ofal-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.
He was jailed for 33 years after being convicted in a treason case. He wasshifted to Adiala Jail after being air-lifted on April 27 from Peshawarjail.
According to the lawyer of Dr Afridi, Qamar Nadeem Advocate, Afridi isexpected to be released in next few weeks as 10 years of imprisonment hadbeen remitted.
Soon after the death of Osama bin Laden in Operation Neptune Spear, the USmedia reported that Afridi had facilitated CIA by collecting DNA samples ofbin Laden’s family
Then-CIA director Leon Panetta and then-US secretary of state HillaryClinton had confirmed the doctor’s role in eliminating the ‘terrorist’,after which Afridi was arrested by Pakistani authorities.