Two years ago, Shakeel Afridi was a government surgeon at a hospital in Pakistan's semiautonomous tribal belt and commanded a small army of caregivers. Today he stands stripped of his job and his freedom, and is poised to become the latest flashpoint between the U.S. and Pakistan, tenuous allies at best.

Afridi, 48, was arrested in Khyber district just weeks after U.S. Navy SEALs found and killed Osama bin Laden in the Pakistani garrison city of Abbottabad last year in May — an operation that Afridi assisted by running an unauthorized hepatitis-B vaccination campaign to trace bin Laden through DNA samples of his children. Soon after, Pakistani court documents state, Afridi was "handed over to an intelligence agency," presumably the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (I.S.I.). In October, he was presented before the high-powered Abbottabad Commission, which includes a Supreme Court justice and a retired Army general, which had also recommended a treason trial for him. Within a week of that appearance, Afridi's worldly possessions were confiscated and he was sacked from his government job, along with others who had reportedly helped him. He was in custody for almost a year until a local court took up his case last month.

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So he expected to get an award from his government for his actions

He shouldn't have tried to serve two masters. Heck, he used Pakistan resources to achieve America's aim!!!
If he and his handlers had thought through their actions, himself and entire family should be staying in an American suburb right now

kokosheen: So he expected to get an award from his government for his actions

He shouldn't have tried to serve two masters. Heck, he used Pakistan resources to achieve America's aim!!!
If he and his handlers had thought through their actions, himself and entire family should be staying in an American suburb right now

Exactly

He can be happy to be still alive because being the epicenter of such an important international issue is not a source of luck. He better find a way to get out of any muslim country.

panafrican: He can be happy to be still alive because being the epicenter of such an important international issue is not a source of luck. He better find a way to get out of any muslim country.

His live is not worth a cent so long as his identity has been revealed