Doctor who helped CIA track down Osama bin Laden, moved to undisclosed 'safe location'
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Afridi had been imprisoned in the Central Prison Peshawar for almost seven years after he ran a phoney vaccination campaign in Abbottabad city to help the CIA track down and kill the former Al Qaeda chief in a controversial raid on May 2 2011.
Dr Shakil Afridi, a doctor who helped the CIA track down Osama bin Laden in his Abbottabad compound and had been imprisoned at a Peshawar prison for the past several years, has been moved out of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
An official of the Central Prison Peshawar confirmed that in the afternoon a large number of policemen as well as army contingent reached the prison and took Dr Afridi away with them amid tight security.
Shakil Afridi has been languishing in a prison in the city of Peshawar for almost seven years after his fake vaccination programme helped US agents track and kill the Al-Qaeda leader.
Jamil Afridi, the doctor's brother, confirmed that he had been informed by government officials that "Shakil has been moved to a safer place".
Afridi was sentenced to jail for 33 years in May 2012 after he was convicted of ties to militants, a charge he has always denied.
Some US lawmakers said the case was revenge for his help in the search for the Al-Qaeda chief.
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