RAWALPINDI – Dr Shakil Afridi has been shifted from the Adiala Jail overthe security concerns, sources have revealed.
As per the report he has been shifted to Sahiwal jail from Adiala jail ofRawalpindi. He was arrested over charges of helping CIA to track down AlQaeeda Chief Osama Bin Laden.
Afridi, who was jailed for 33 years in May 2012 after he was convicted ofties to militants, was shifted to Sahiwal jail in strict security, localmedia reported.
Earlier, it emerged on media that Washington had offered Islamabad toexchange Shakeel Afridi for Pakistani scientist Aafia Siddiqui who isserving a jail term in the United States.
The CIA failed to conduct an operation to stage a prison breakfor Pakistani physician Shakeel Afridi who had helped the US authoritiestrack down founder of al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden.
Soon after the death of Osama bin Laden in May 2011, the US media reportedthat Afridi had contributed to the success of the CIA operation bycollecting DNA samples of bin Laden’s family by order of the intelligenceagency. Then-CIA Director Leon Panetta and then-US Secretary of StateHillary Clinton had confirmed the doctor’s role in eliminating theterrorist, after which Afridi was arrested by Pakistani authorities.