Senior Minister Bashir Bilour on June 12 told the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Assembly
that the
provincial
Government
had discussed
with the
Federal
Government
the shifting
of Doctor
Shakil Afridi,
who allegedly
helped Central
Intelligence
Agency (CIA)
track down
slain al
Qaeda leader
Osama bin
Laden in
Abbottabad,
to other
jails from
the Central
Prison Peshawar,
reports
The News.
Responding
to the points
raised by
the Pakistan
Muslim League-Quaid
deputy parliamentary
leader Nighat
Orakzai,
he said
the Provincial
Government
was waiting
for the
response
of the Federal
Government.
He said
the Provincial
Government
would shift
Doctor Shakil
Afridi to
the Balahisar
Fort in
Peshawar
if he was
not shifted
to any other
province.
“As far
as his security
is concerned
the Provincial
Government
has provided
all the
possible
security
to him at
the Central
Prison Peshawar,”
the Minister
said. |
