Pakistan raps Trump over vow to free doctor who helped track bin Laden


  • World
  • Tuesday, 03 May 2016

A policeman walks past Central Jail in Peshawar May 24, 2012. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan angrily criticised Donald Trump, frontrunner for the U.S. Republican presidential nomination, for saying he would force the country to free a jailed Pakistani doctor believed to have helped the CIA hunt down al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

Trump, a 69-year-old billionaire real estate developer, told Fox News on Friday that, if elected, he would get Pakistan to free Shakil Afridi "in two minutes", saying that Islamabad receives a lot of development aid from the United States.

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