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Dr. Afridi denies all charges and says he never got a Fair Trial

A Pakistani Doctor Who helped the US find al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, is appealing against his prison sentence.

It is the First Time , ^ A Afridi, which has been the case in the courtroom. The Judge adjourned the case to 22. October, at The Request of prosecutors.

Dr. Afridi, the role was a big embarrassment for Pakistan. He argues that he was denied a Fair Trial .

He was never to hunt officially charged for his role in the 2011 operation to kill The World 's most wanted man.

Dr. Afridi arrest caused outrage and Saw (£27m) - $1 million for every year of his prison sentence. in the Peshawar High Court

U.S. President Donald Trump fight promised in his 2016 election, he would have published Dr. Afridi in "Two minutes," if he is elected - But that never happened.

While The Doctor is considered a hero in the United States, in Pakistan, he is seen by many as a traitor and a humiliation of the Country - the US Navy Seals have been able to fly, kill the mastermind and the way with his body, without even question, much less stopped brought.

Osama Bin Laden evaded detection for nearly a decade after the 9/11 attacks on the United States

And she raised uncomfortable questions on whether Pakistan's military, which runs its security policy, was aware of Bin Laden in the Country .

Pakistan remains an uneasy partner to This Day in the U.S.-led fight against Militant Islam .

Who is ^ A Afridi?

Dr. Afridi was The Top medic in the Khyber tribal area, district and head of health services had monitored a series of U.S.-sponsored vaccination programs.

As an employee of the government, he directed a similar way to the hepatitis-B-vaccination-programme, including in the garrison town of Abbottabad, where it turned out, was Bin Laden living right under the nose of the military.

The US intelligence services plan to the extraction of a Blood sample from one of The Children living in the Abbottabad compound, so that DNA could determine tests, whether or not they were relatives of Osama Bin Laden.

It is believed that one of Dr. Afridi's employees, the composition and the collected Blood was visited, But it is not known whether this proved to be Central for The Americans , success in the localization of their target.

Dr. Afridi was taken into custody on 23 may 2011, 20 days after Bin Laden was killed. He is thought to have been in his late forties at the Time .

Osama Bin Laden ' s compound in 2012, before it completely demolished

Little is known about his personal life, other than that he came from a humble background and graduated from Khyber Medical College in 1990. His Family live in hiding since his arrest, out of fear of militant attacks.

His wife is a teacher from Abbottabad who was the principal of a government school, before she dived under. The couple has three children - Two boys and a girl, at least Two of them now adults.

In January 2012, the US representative publicly acknowledged that Dr. Afridi had worked for U.S. intelligence.

But it is far from clear how much he knew about his role for the CIA. He said nothing to this effect during his deposition to the Abbottabad Commission into The Killing .

Dr. Afridi did not know who was The Target of the operation, when the CIA recruited him, according to a Pakistani investigation.

What was he convicted of?

the deceased Although initially accused of treason, Dr. Afridi was finally arrested in may 2012 after he was found guilty of financing Lashkar-e-Islam, a banned militant group, now.

He was sentenced to 33 years in prison for alleged links to The Group in the tribal court, although this was later reduced to 23 years on appeal.

Dr. Afridi was also accused of providing medical aid to its fighters and that The Group was headed to meetings in the government hospital.

His Family vehemently denied these charges, and his lawyers say that the only money he was ever paid by The Group for a ransom of 1m Pakistani rupees (£5,200; $6,375) to secure his release after they kidnapped him in 2008.

From his prison cell in 2012 by the Pakistani intelligence.

A year later, he had done it.

So, why was he not charged with, help the US?

This is not quite clear, But the Bin Laden affair was a big blow for Pakistan.

Although officials were angry with what they Saw as a violation of the sovereignty, to admit the secret services had to public that they had no idea that The Founder and leader of al-life-Qaeda have been there, In Secret , in a three-storey building behind high walls, for several years.

soldiers cleared debris from Osama Bin Laden's compound after the U.S. RAID in may 2011

The White house counter-terrorism chief, John Brennan, said at the Time that it was "inconceivable that Bin Laden be turned over to a support system" in Pakistan, a charge Islamabad. to calculate

But , Dr. Afridi for his role in the US operation, would have meant even more bad publicity.

Why is his case is before the court now?

took place So far, the legal process, the British-era Frontier Crimes Regulations, which is subject to the semi-Autonomous tribal areas (Fata) along the Afghan border until last year.

tribal courts were, under the chairmanship of administrative officials, assisted by a Council of the largely pliable tribal elders, and were not tied to due process.

That was seen as a convenient way of dealing with Dr. Afridi, largely from the public's point of view.

But the Fusion of the tribal areas and adjacent Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in the past year means that of the cases that have been moved to a regular Pakistani courts.

At the next hearing he could cut his sentence, or it could be increased, as the state claim lawyers.

Since last year, has been moved from a Peshawar jail in Punjab, there are even say that he can be released, possibly in a prisoner swap with Aafia Siddiqui , an alleged al-Qaeda Agent, currently incarcerated in the United States.

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Source of news: bbc.com