Pakistani doctor who led U.S. Navy SEALS to Bin Laden's hideout jailed for treason

Dr Shakil Afridi

The Pakistani doctor who played a pivotal role in the hunting down of Osama Bin Laden was jailed for 33 years today after being convicted of treason.
Dr Shakil Afridi led Navy SEALS to bin Laden by setting up fake vaccination programme that allowed him to take DNA samples from terrorist's children
Western officials say sentencing in Islamabad is punishment for humiliating Pakistan, who claims to not know Al Qaeda boss was living in Abottabad 

U.S. Defence secretary Leon Panetta confirmed in January that Dr Afridi collected DNA in an effort to help locate Bin Laden but added he 'was not in any way treasonous towards Pakistan... for them to take this kind of action against somebody who was helping to go after terrorism, I just think is a real mistake on their part'.
The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had called for his release on the grounds that his work served Pakistani and American interests.

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