Wife of missing doctor not ready to believe her spouse as CIA agent
By Iqbal Khattak
PESHAWAR: The distressed family of Dr Shakil Afridi is in disbelief that he had work for the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to help track down Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad before May 2 operation without informing civil and military leadership in Islamabad.
He is not that sort of person. I am surprised how he could do this, if it is true, the wife of Khyber Agency surgeon Dr Afridi, shaken by a British newspapers report, told Daily Times on Tuesday. Guardian newspaper said the American CIA recruited Dr Shakil Afridi, resident of Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency where he was the top health official also, to run fake vaccination drive in Abbottabad to try to get DNA samples from the family members of Osama bin Laden.
Dr Afridi was kidnapped from Karkhano Market close to border with Khyber Agency in May, his family said. The US government was also furious at Islamabad for arresting the CIA agents who helped track down Osama bin Laden. Pakistan had admitted to having arrested some of these agents. He is a simple person, the wife said. Dr Afridi was removed from the post of surgeon on corruption charges last year, but was reinstated after he had won a legal battle early this year.
Former FATA security chief Brig (r) Mehmood Shah said it was likely that the CIA recruited Dr Afridi to work as an agent and the American CIA was looking for soft people and (it) enrolled many as its agents. Dr Shakil could be one of these CIA agents, Mehmood Shah told Daily Times.
When he disappeared we had a feeling he might have been kidnapped by Taliban or professional kidnappers or the government. But this report at least let us know who is holding him, the alleged CIA agents wife went on to say. She said no government agency approached the missing agency surgeons family since his disappearance and said the family lodged a complaint with police station but it was not yet turned into an FIR.
