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Dr Afridi's attorney says 'Fox News interview' is conspiracy
[Dawn]  Attorney of Dr Shakeel Afridi, allegedly involved in tracing al Qaeda chief the late Osama bin Laden... who knows that it's like to live in the belly of a whale only he's not living... , said on Thursday that his client has not given interview to any international media, DawnNews reported. Speaking to media representatives after the the hearing of the case in Commissioner Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR's) office in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. , the attorney of Afridi Sartaj Khan said that there was some conspiracy against his client and Afridi was wrongly accused of speaking to international media. He said that increased restrictions on his client were not justified. He informed that due to incomplete panel of the lawyers, the hearing of the case has been postponed until October 25. Earlier it was reported that, Afridi told a US television channel that the ISI considered America Pakistain's "worst enemy". Fox News had claimed that its correspondent had conducted the interview in the Peshawar Centre Jail, and quoted Dr Afridi as saying that he suffered "brutal interrogation and torture" when tossed in the calaboose Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! According to Fox News claims, Afridi accused the ISI of funding myrmidons. The ISI rubbished as 'fiction' on Tuesday a reported interview by a US TV channel of cooled for a few years Book 'im, Mahmoud! Dr Shakeel Afridi. Posted by: Fred 2012-09-28 |
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