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ISLAMABAD - Pakistan on Tuesday rubbished an interview of Dr Shakil Afridi, convicted for helping the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in sniffing out and eliminating al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, saying the allegations were intended to destabilize Pakistan-US relations.
“Afridi’s purported interview to Fox News is devoid of facts and completely baseless. The timing of this interview with the 9/11 anniversary is an evidence of anti-Pakistan elements’ efforts to harm Pakistan-US relations,” a senior security official told Pakistan Today.
In an interview to Fox News, Afridi alleged that the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) considers the US its “worst enemy” and Islamabad’s cooperation with Washington was just a sham to extract billions of dollars in aid.
The controversial news channel broadcast only the transcript of the purported exclusive, but did not indicate whether it was a video or audio interview. It also does not say how its reporter managed to enter Peshawar Jail or meet Dr Afridi. “They said ‘The Americans are our worst enemies, worse than the Indians’,” Afridi was quoted as saying.
“I tried to argue that America was Pakistan’s biggest supporter - billions and billions of dollars in aid, social and military assistance — but all they said was, ‘These are our worst enemies. You helped our enemies’,” he said.
According to Fox, Afridi accused the ISI of funding militants. “It is now indisputable that militancy in Pakistan is supported by the ISI … Pakistan’s fight against militancy is bogus. It’s just to extract money from America,” he said. Afridi claimed that he was first detained in the basement of ISI’s headquarters in Islamabad, where he was tortured with cigarette burns and electric shocks and ISI officers attacked him for assisting the US.
He also described “a regime of perpetual torture and interrogation for large numbers of detainees”, some of whom include white western male converts to Islam caught while travelling to Afghanistan to fight NATO troops or to join militant camps in FATA. One of the officers who allegedly interrogated him had also escorted an American official visiting from Washington to an interview with a highly sought militant, Abdul Karim Agha, in November 2011.
Agha had later told him that an ISI officer had whispered instructions in his ear as he walked into the interrogation room to feign sudden illness so he could not be interviewed.
“I was told by others that the ISI advises militants to make things up to tell CIA interrogators, pretend this and that,” Fox News quoted Afridi as saying. Afridi said before he was moved to Peshawar in May, he met Abdul Kayyum, the nephew of a chief of the Wazir tribe, who had been apprehended by the ISI for reasons that were unclear. Afridi said there were many militants of different nationalities, often Afghans, held at Aabpara. Arab detainees were given “first-class treatment and first-class food”, while some radicalized westerners were singled out for abuse. “The militants were told by the ISI, ‘According to the Americans, we’re supposed to arrest you. We don’t want anything to do with you, but will support you by letting you go. Go back to Afghanistan and steer clear of the Americans.’ And then they would be released.”


This guy spied for outside country and betrayed his nation THIS traiter should be hanged Three times!
 
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This guy spied for outside country and betrayed his nation THIS traiter should be hanged Three times!


The guy was responsible for execution of one of the most hated terrorists in the world... this guy is a hero
 
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Fox news is JERK, Their news even dont deserve to go to funny and stupid Thread, They are utter garbage.
 
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The guy was responsible for execution of one of the most hated terrorists in the world... this guy is a hero
he is yours ..not ours
Osama bin laden was also her for many and many(not mine)...he was wealthy,he could enjoy his life...but America's dirty jobs forced him and many to fight against her.
 
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US will spring the doctor out, if not by diplomatic means , then by a similar obl type raid to rescue...
 
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US will spring the doctor out, if not by diplomatic means , then by a similar obl type raid to rescue...
It's very possible specialy if the area in which Afridi is isnt guarded that well but the question is, why would USA risk such an operation for Afridi because he is of no help to USA anymore. Task is done, mission accomplished so according to USA,Afridi should be wasted or not, no big deal, it dont matter.
 
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Already posted in the pre-existing thread on this topic:

ISLAMABAD, Sept 11: The ISI rubbished as `fiction` on Tuesday a reported interview by a US TV channel of jailed Dr Shakeel Afridi, allegedly involved in tracing Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.

`There is no evidence to suggest that Fox News correspondent had interviewed Dr Afridi,` a senior security official said after preliminary investigations.

`It is all concocted and baseless,` he said as he laughed off the claims made in the interview. `It`s amusing how well he (as reported in the interview) learnt about ISI operations from the cell in which he was kept blindfolded for eight months, as claimed by him,` he added.

The jail in which he has been lodged has `jammers` that block cellphone signals, another official said.

An ISPR official said the move had been made to undermine the prospects of resumption of the PakistanUS Strategic Dialogue.

The dialogue is expected to resume following improvement in ties between the two countries since July 3 when US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said sorry for the death of Pakistani troops in an attack on Salala border posts last November.

In his supposed interview, Dr Afridi had spoken about his detention in an ISI facility in Islamabad during which he got a chance to interact with other militants who were also being interrogated there.

Dr Afridi supposedly also told the interviewer how much the ISI was hostile to the US.

However, Fox News correspondent Dominic Di-Natale in a tweet posting said: `We asked key questions for ID purposes based on a track record of details. Then I directly spoke for 40 mins w/him on Saturday.` He refused to speak to Dawn and instead suggested contacting the Fox News public relations department.

He told a friend that he had exchanged a number of messages with Dr Afridi through an intermediary for weeks before his telephonic conversation with him last weekend.

-Staff Reporter

`Dr Afridi`s interview concocted` | ePaper | DAWN.COM

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PESHAWAR, Sept 11: Prison authorities in Peshawar have vehemently denied that the convicted physician alleged to have helped the CIA to knock out Osama bin Laden gave an interview to an American news channel.

`No such interview has taken place,` Khalid Abbas, Inspector General of Prison in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, told Dawn on Tuesday. His comments were sought on a purported interview given by Dr Shakil Afridi to Fox News.

A tribal court has sentenced Dr Afridi to 33 years in prison on charges of helping and colluding with militants.

But no formal charges were brought against him on his alleged spying for the CIA despite recommendations made by a judicial commission.

Fox News claimed that itscorrespondenthad conducted the interview in the Peshawar Centre Jail.

In the purported interview, which was also carried by a section of the media in Pakistan, Dr Afridi spoke of an underground detention facility at the ISPs headquarters in Aabpara, Islamabad, and how the intelligence agency`s officers deceived their American counterparts.

Khalid Abbas, who also oversees the Peshawar Central Jail, said two local journalists had visited him a couple of months ago and wanted to interview Dr Afridi.

But, he said, he had turned down their request on the grounds that no-one was allowed to meet the undertrial prisoner.

He said that on the orders of the government, Afridi`s elder brother Jamil Khan Afridi, two sisters and his two lawyers had beenallowed to meet him on August 28 in the office of the prison`s deputy superintendent after a thorough search at the main gate.

`There is no question of any one meeting the prisoner without prior approval of the government,` he said, adding that there was no question of allowing either a video or audio recorder inside the prison and that all visitors were body-searched to ensure that no gadgets went through.

Khalid Abbas challenged Fox News to come out with any audio or video material it had of Afridi`s purported interview.

An official said Afridi was being kept in a secluded lockup and no-one was allowed to meet him inside the prison.

Only Afridi`s immediate family members and lawyers were allowed to meet him once a month and records of their visits were diligently kept, he said.


Jail authorities deny interview | ePaper | DAWN.COM
 
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US will spring the doctor out, if not by diplomatic means , then by a similar obl type raid to rescue...

dont you ever do a dirty job for US and then count on their help to rescue you, or you can give it a try if you like since you are Indian and American like you ...lol
 
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The guy was responsible for execution of one of the most hated terrorists in the world... this guy is a hero

Lozzz.. hero of what??? US killed a dead person again & this guy becomes a hero, WTF.

Don't stay deaf & blind, people in US & around the world are coming to know in a faster pace the real face of US & their evil plans.


This guy spied for outside country and betrayed his nation THIS traiter should be hanged Three times!


Well he is a traitor & he betrayed his country for US Citizenship, few Dollars & he helped US in achiving their lies & propaganda.
 
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Doesn't matter now whether the interview was faked or not, the damage has been done. The American audience have been once again shown nothing but paranoid "reporting".
 
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US will spring the doctor out, if not by diplomatic means , then by a similar obl type raid to rescue...

You Underestimate ISI , ................................................ Greatly.
 
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The guy was responsible for execution of one of the most hated terrorists in the world... this guy is a hero
hahahhaha hero what kind of hero ,
what about treachery to his profession and his oath ......
how many children will suffer from polio because of this traitor and bastard

US will spring the doctor out, if not by diplomatic means , then by a similar obl type raid to rescue...
baby ja pogo daikh pogo ....
 
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You over estimate the importance of pawns.

Gustaakhi ma'aaf Sir, isn't Pakistan itself only a pawn in the overall game of giants? And of course, in keeping with your comment, it exaggerates its own importance in the game to its own detriment, does it not?
 
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