Senate panel slashes Pakistan aid over conviction of doctor who helped US get Osama bin Laden [View all]
Source: Washington Post
WASHINGTON — A Senate panel expressed its outrage over the conviction of a Pakistani doctor who helped the U.S. get Osama bin Laden by slashing aid by $33 million — $1 million for every year of the doctor’s 33-year sentence.
The Appropriations Committee approved the amendment 30-0 on Thursday as Republicans and Democrats widely criticized Pakistan’s conviction of Shakil Afridi for high treason a day earlier. Afridi ran a vaccination program for the CIA to collect DNA and verify bin Laden’s presence at the compound in the town of Abbottabad where U.S. commandos killed the al-Qaida leader in May 2011.
The United States has called for Afridi to be released.
The vote came on a $52 billion foreign aid budget for next year.
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