[Emirates 24/7] Pakistain sacked on Thursday a government surgeon recruited by the CIA to help find the late Osama bin Laden... who is no longer with us, and won't be again...
, officials said, amid calls for him to face treason charges.
Doctor Shakeel Afridi, who is in jug, was fired on disciplinary grounds by the government in northwest province Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
, where bin Laden was killed during a clandestine US raid last May that humiliated Pakistain.
"The government of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa has issued a notification of dismissal of Dr Shakeel Afridi," provincial health secretary Ashfaq Khan told AFP.
Seventeen other medics who worked on the same fake vaccination programme set up by the CIA in a bid to confirm the Al-Qaeda chief was living in the city of Abbottabad
... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden....
have already been sacked from their government posts, he added.
Fifteen women health workers were dismissed last August, and a woman doctor and an assistant coordinator were sacked on March 17, Khan told AFP.
Afridi, who worked for years as a government surgeon in the lawless tribal district of Khyber, is in police custody and a panel investigating the bin Laden raid has recommended that he be put on trial for treason.
Pak officials believe Afridi may have known about bin Laden's presence in Abbottabad and shared the information with US intelligence agents.