[Dawn] Pakistain has told the US that Shakil Afridi, the doctor who helped the CIA track down former Al Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden... who is now beyond all cares and woe...
, was no hero and that his fate would be decided by the courts, DawnNews reported.
Pakistain's Foreign Secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani was giving a briefing after a meeting between a US House Committee on Foreign Affairs and a delegation led by Prime Minister
Nawaz Sharif... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf...
Jilani said a high-level delegation from Pakistain would visit the United States on Nov 12.
The meeting which was attended by Pakistain's Federal Finance Minister Senator Ishaq Dar, Foreign Secretary Jilani and Prime Minister's Adviser on Foreign Affairs and National Security Sartaj Aziz discussed matters relating to the "war against terrorism", myrmidon outfits like the Lashkar-e-Taiba
...the
Army of the Pure,an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is
banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI...
(LT), civil nuclear program, drone strikes, energy crisis, educational reforms, regional stability and trade.
During the meeting, the foreign secretary said that the US was told that the LT had already been banned in Pakistain and that action could be taken against Hafiz Muhammad Saeed
...who would be wearing a canvas jacket with very long sleeves anyplace but Pakistain...
if substantial evidence was made available.
Regarding the demand to release Dr Shakil Afridi, Jilani said the US was told that Afridi was no hero and was facing criminal cases, adding that the courts would decide his fate.
Earlier, the BBC Urdu website had reported that United States Representative Edward Royce, a Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Republican and Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee had emphasised on Afridi's release during the meeting.
The meeting was also attended by chairman representatives of both the parties in the House and 15 other members.
Afridi was convicted and sentenced to 33 years last year in May for involvement in anti-state activities by a tribal court.
A judicial official overturned the 33-year jail sentence in August this year but Afridi remains in detention.
He is accused of colluding with banned myrmidon outfit Lashkar-e-Islam and its chief Mangal Bagh
...a former bus driver, now head of the Deobandi bandido group Lashkar-e-Islam and the Terror of Khyber Agency...
.