US lawmaker asks Pakistan to release Shakil Afridi: Who is the doctor who helped CIA hunt Osama bin Laden?

US lawmaker asks Pakistan to release Shakil Afridi: Who is the doctor who helped CIA hunt Osama bin Laden?

US Congressman Brad Sherman has told a Pakistani delegation, led by Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, to press their government to release Shakil Afridi. The Pakistani doctor has been languishing in prison since May 2011. He was recruited by the CIA to lead a vaccination programme, a front to identify al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden at his residence in Pakistan’s Abbottabad

A Pakistani doctor helped the US identify Osama bin Laden. File Photo/Reuters