[Dawn] Pak lawyers said Friday they would appeal the conviction for treason handed down by a tribal court to a surgeon recruited by US intelligence to help find the late Osama bin Laden... who used to be but now ain't...
A tribal court in Khyber Wednesday placed in long-term storage
Drop the rosco and step away witcher hands up!
Shakeel Afridi for 33 years for agreeing to try and collect DNA for US intelligence in their bid to locate Osama.
Afridi ran a fake vaccination program designed to collect bin Laden family DNA from the compound in the town 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....
, where the al Qaeda leader was rubbed out in a US raid in May 2011.
"We have requested the Khyber administration to provide us with the documents related to the trial and conviction, and once we get them, we will file an appeal in the office of the commissioner of the Frontier Crimes Regulation," lawyer Samiullah Afridi told AFP.
The lawyer, general secretary of the Peace Movement, a civil society group against militancy, said his organization did not believe the doctor committed any crime, but had instead worked "to help eliminate terrorism".