PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A Pakistani lawyer and prison official say a physician who was convicted for helping the U.S. track down Osama bin Laden has been taken by authorities from a prison in Peshawar to an unknown location. Qamar Nadim, a lawyer for Dr. Shakil Afridi, says he doesn’t know where his client was taken. A prison official said Saturday Afridi was taken from the prison the previous night to a ‘safer location.’ The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter. Afridi has been in solitary confinement for almost eight years after using a vaccination scam to help U.S. agents track and kill the al-Qaeda leader. Afridi was convicted and sentenced to 33 years after a May 2011 Navy Seal operation that killed bin Laden in Abbottabad.

Source: National Post April 28, 2018 05:54 UTC