ISLAMABAD - The Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA track and kill Osama bin Laden has launched a hunger strike from his prison cell, his lawyer and family said Monday. Shakeel Afridi has been languishing behind bars for years since his fake vaccination programme helped US agents track and kill ...

*WASHINGTON – Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that**Shakil Afridi – **a Pakistani physician who helped the CIA run a fake hepatitis vaccine program in Abbottabad – can be released in exchange of Dr Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist jailed in the US for almost a decade.* In an ...

MULTAN – Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has responded over media reports over Aafia Siddiqui. He on Saturday said that no deal would be made on Aafia Siddiqui and Shakeel Afridi. Talking to media in Multan on Saturday, he said that we think Dr Shakeel Afridi worked against Pakistan’s ...

ISLAMABAD:Foreign Office has denied any deal regarding handing over of Shakeel Afridi to the United States. The denial came from Foreign Office Spokesperson Dr Muhammad Faisal at his weekly news briefing in Islamabad today while replying a question on the subject. To a question, the Spokesperson ...

The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) failed to conduct an operation to stage a prison break for Pakistani doctor Shakil Afridi who had helped US authorities track down al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden, a Russian news agency has claimed citing a source familiar with the ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Shakil Afridi has languished in jail for years — since 2011, when the Pakistani doctor used a vaccination scam in an attempt to identify Osama bin Laden’s home, aiding U.S. Navy Seals who tracked and killed the al-Qaida leader. Americans might wonder how Pakistan could ...

PESHAWAR: The lawyer of the Dr Shakeel Afridi, a Pakistani national who worked for American CIA to track down Al Qaeeda Chief Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan, missed the hearing of the case against his client in the applette tribunal.The Federally Administered Tribal Areas Tribunal on Wednesday ...

The Wall Street Journal news story titled ‘U.S. and Pakistan Discuss Release of Doctor Who Helped Find Osama bin Laden’, said that lawyers of the doctor said that Afridi was wrongly convicted, on charges unrelated to the bin Laden raid, and they see a chance of winning his release.The Trump ...

PESHAWAR: Authorities have refused to grant identity cards to the family of Shakeel Afridi, the jailed doctor who helped the CIA hunt for Osama bin Laden, his lawyer said, effectively denying them passports and voting rights.Afridi has been languishing in prison for more than five years after his ...

ISLAMABAD: Defense Minister Khawaja Asif made it clear that F-16 jets would be purchased by Pakistan from other countries for the sake of country defense if United States refuses to give jets to Pakistan.While talking to media here at today in Islamabad, Defense Minister said that to acquire F-16 ...