Pakistan jails doctor who helped CIA

Michelle Fernandez

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Pakistan has jailed a doctor who helped the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States collect DNA samples of Osama bin Laden. The US government believes this has no basis, and Secretary of State  Hillary Clinton had called for his release. Shakil Afridi was charged with treason and tried under the tribal justice system in Khyber district for running a fake vaccination program to gather information on bin Laden. The raid on bin Laden’s safe house, which led to his killing last year, strained the relations between the two allies.

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