US Senate panel cuts Pakistan aid over conviction

[Saithan]

24 May 2012 / REUTERS, WASHINGTON
A Senate panel expressed its outrage over the conviction of a Pakistani doctor who helped the US get Osama bin Laden by slashing aid by $33 million - $1 million for every year of the doctor's 33-year sentence.

The Appropriations Committee approved the amendment 30-0 on Thursday as Republicans and Democrats widely criticized Pakistan's conviction of Shakil Afridi for high treason a day earlier. Afridi ran a vaccination program for the CIA to collect DNA and verify bin Laden's presence at the compound in the town of Abbottabad where US commandos killed the al-Qaida leader in May 2011.

The United States has called for Afridi to be released.

source: US Senate panel cuts Pakistan aid over conviction

 

[AbhimanyuShrivastav]

24 May 2012 / REUTERS, WASHINGTON
A Senate panel expressed its outrage over the conviction of a Pakistani doctor who helped the US get Osama bin Laden by slashing aid by $33 million - $1 million for every year of the doctor's 33-year sentence.

The Appropriations Committee approved the amendment 30-0 on Thursday as Republicans and Democrats widely criticized Pakistan's conviction of Shakil Afridi for high treason a day earlier. Afridi ran a vaccination program for the CIA to collect DNA and verify bin Laden's presence at the compound in the town of Abbottabad where US commandos killed the al-Qaida leader in May 2011.

The United States has called for Afridi to be released.

source: US Senate panel cuts Pakistan aid over conviction

Great symbolic gesture.. Every single NATO country that provides aid to Pakistan should follow suit..

 

[CaptainJackSparrow]

It's time America stood up for its and the entire world's friend Dr. Afiridi.

 

[scholseys]

I don't get it ...how is this an act of treason?

 

[AbhimanyuShrivastav]

I don't get it ...how is this an act of treason?

Every Pakistani knows the answer but can not say openly...

 

[scholseys]

there was a bounty on bin laden for 40 million dollars...is dr. afridi or his family getting the reward?

 

[AbhimanyuShrivastav]

there was a bounty on bin laden for 40 million dollars...is dr. afridi or his family getting the reward?

One would hope so... But USA will have to do another Raymond Davis first to get him out...

 

[Prometheus]

Dr. Afiridi deserves nobel prize.

 

[CaptainJackSparrow]

Dr. Afiridi deserves nobel prize.

I completely agree. A man who rid the world of the personification of evil deserves all the recognition he could get.

 

[somebozo]

24 May 2012 / REUTERS, WASHINGTON
A Senate panel expressed its outrage over the conviction of a Pakistani doctor who helped the US get Osama bin Laden by slashing aid by $33 million - $1 million for every year of the doctor's 33-year sentence.

The Appropriations Committee approved the amendment 30-0 on Thursday as Republicans and Democrats widely criticized Pakistan's conviction of Shakil Afridi for high treason a day earlier. Afridi ran a vaccination program for the CIA to collect DNA and verify bin Laden's presence at the compound in the town of Abbottabad where US commandos killed the al-Qaida leader in May 2011.

The United States has called for Afridi to be released.

source: US Senate panel cuts Pakistan aid over conviction

Who the hell is US to poke nose in our internal matter?

 

[jaunty]

The guy most likely didn't even know who he was working for or what he was working on. Surely the punishment of running a fake vaccination campaign which probably didn't harm anybody except OBL can't be 33 years, oh wait, it was tribal court. If the doc had any idea of anything which is highly unlikely he would have received American residency long before the OBL operation. As always great PR job by Pak.

 

[Peregrine]

Please also cut off diplomatic ties with Pakistan and leave us alone.

 

[KingMamba]

I don't get it ...how is this an act of treason?

He should have went to the ISI not the CIA by going to the CIA he encouraged an attack on his own country by a foreign force. If I was Prime Minister of Pakistan I would have had him hung he got off easy.

there was a bounty on bin laden for 40 million dollars...is dr. afridi or his family getting the reward?

Of course the reward money probably will never come up now that they got Bin laden.

 

[KS]

Who the hell is US to poke nose in our internal matter?

I like your sense of humor.

 

[WAQAS119]

lol at Indians on this thread. It is like few brainless/retards posting with no sense.
It goes like that:

1st Indian: Posts something negative about Pakistan.
2nd Indian: Oh GOD! Pakistan should be punished.
3rd Indian: Whole world should attack Pakistan.
4th Indian: These terrorists has no place in this world.
5th Indian: All hail US.
6th Indian: Blah blah blah
7th Indian: Blah blah blah......
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Nth Indian: blah blah Blah about Pakistan.

And all this while being on Pakistani Forum.
If you guys hate Pakistan so much why not go to Bharat RatShit Forum to enjoy spilling venom.