Citing threats from die-hard militants, Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Government has asked federal authorities to shift Shakeel Afridi, the doctor who helped the CIA track Osama Bin laden, to a safer place.
They wrote a letter to the federal authorities last week stressing the need to finalise a strategy to take custody of the doctor who had helped the US agencies in pinpointing bin laden’s whereabouts in the garrison city of Abbottabad.
Afridi is currently being held at the central prison in Peshawar. The move comes in the background of the recent jail attacks in the province and requests by Afridi’s lawyers.
“The Central prison Peshawar is holding nearly 3,000 prisoners and 250 of them are confined on terror charges. These die-hard militants could attack Afridi,” as quoted by the Express Tribune.
It said intelligence agencies had repeatedly cautioned the provincial Government against the possibility of an attack on Shakeel Afridi.