Dr. Shakeel Afridi

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Dr. Shakeel Afridi

Pakistan’s relations with the United States deteriorate further as the Pakistani information ministry announced that a commission recommended that a doctor that had cooperated with the American CIA in apprehending Osama bin Laden be charged with treason.
The information ministry said that a case of conspiracy against the state of Pakistan would be made against Dr. Shakeel Afridi. The recommendation the commission will make is nonbinding and is not clear whether the government would actually act on it.
Afridi is accused of helping CIA use a vaccination campaign to collect DNA samples from people in the entourage of the former Al-Qaeda leader, the enemy #1 of America, considered responsible for the attacks on September 11, 2001 against the Twin Towers in New York City, which claimed the lives of more than 3,000 people.
The United States has repeatedly asked for the release of the doctor, who was detained in July by Pakistani security, and has been kept in custody since. No one even knows whether he enjoys the legal representation of an attorney.
The Guardian reported earlier this year that the CIA recruited a Pakistani doctor to collect some samples from the people in the compound where bin Laden was kept. The samples were meant to be compared to the DNA of bin Laden’s sister, who had died in 2010 in Boston. By that, CIA wanted to make sure that the family of America’s archenemy was in that Pakistani compound.
People in the neighborhood where bin Laden was found said that before the American Special Ops stormed the compound in Abbottabad on May 2, killing Osama bin Laden, two women, which appeared to be nurses had come to their houses asking the population to participate in a vaccination campaign.
The Pakistani commission said that the house where bin Laden was found would be turned over to the city of Abbottabad, and that the restraint order that forced the bin Laden surviving members to remain in Pakistan was also lifted, making it possible for the authorities to hand them over to the authorities of other countries.
The killing of Osama bin Laden soured the relations between the United States and Pakistan, after years of political partnership in the war against terror.
The first cracks in this relation were produced by the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, which published information about the cooperation between Pakistani officials and insurgents in Afghanistan.
The revelation in the WikiLeaks materials was condemned at the time by the president of Pakistan, whose country was reeling from the devastating floods that displaced some 20 million people last year.
After the killing of bin Laden, the United States cut off the military support for Pakistan, and so the tension between the two countries escalated to a point when the admiral Mick Mullen overtly accused Pakistani Directorate for Foreign Intelligence of having supported the Haqqani network of terror in bombing the US Embassy in Kabul. Mullen accused Pakistani foreign intelligence of using Haqqani as an armed hand to influence policies in battered Afghanistan.
In a move that was meant to send a joint message from the US and the Afghan officials, president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, paid a visit to India, with which he signed a series of strategic agreements on economy and strategic defense.
By these agreements, other than angering its arch-foe Pakistan, India is fulfilling the call the United States president Barack Obama made last year, while visiting this country, that India may rise and assume a leading role in the region.
The call, intended to play India against China, was also repeated by U.S. State Secretary Hillary Clinton on the occasion of her tour to this great country.
Obama told India on that occasion that Afghanistan’s future security must become “India’s problem,” and it would seem that it has. By that, the U.S. president was sending the Pakistani regime a message, since Pakistan considers Afghanistan its “backyard.” India’s strategic economic interests in the region can better be served with an appeased Afghanistan.
To counter these new moves on the regional political stage, Pakistan turned to China’s support, promising the rising star of Asia to make its best to prevent terrorists from infiltrating into Chinese territory. By that Pakistan meant the Uyghur militants who fight against China’s authority in the province China calls Xinjiang, and they call East Turkestan.

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