US cuts aid by $33 mn for 'Osama' doc's 33 years jail

May 25, 2012 10:58

In a fresh blow to the battered relations between America and Pakistan, US Congressmen on the powerful Senate appropriations committee have voted to deduct 1 million dollars from the 800 million dollars annual budget for each of the 33 years that Dr Shakeel Afridi has been sentenced to, for working with the CIA.

Dr Afridi had set up a fake vaccination campaign in Abbottabad in an attempt to obtain blood samples from Osama Bin Laden''s family, as the CIA tried to confirm the Al-Qaeda chief''s presence in a nearby villa.

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