Pakistan sacked on Thursday a government surgeon recruited by the CIA to help find Osama bin Laden, officials said, amid calls for him to face treason charges. Doctor Shakeel Afridi, who is in custody, was fired on disciplinary grounds by the government in north-west province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where bin Laden was killed during a clandestine US raid last May that humiliated Pakistan.
"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 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 co-ordinator were sacked on March 17, Khan told.
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