{"id":63461,"date":"2018-05-03T16:12:55","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T11:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=63461"},"modified":"2018-05-03T16:12:55","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T11:12:55","slug":"pakistan-rules-out-any-deal-with-us-over-dr-afridi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=63461","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan rules out any deal with US over Dr. Afridi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ISLAMABAD, May 3 (TNS):\u00a0Pakistan&#8217;s foreign ministry says that no &#8220;deal&#8221; is in the works between Islamabad and Washington for the release of Dr. Afridi who helped the United States track down Osama bin Laden in 2011, US media reported.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday&#8217;s comment by the ministry&#8217;s spokesman, Mohammad Faisal, came days after Pakistani authorities moved Dr. Shakil Afridi from a prison in the northwestern city of Peshawar to an undisclosed location, triggering speculation about his possible release.<\/p>\n<p>Afridi has languished behind bars since 2012, when a court convicted him and sentenced him to 33 years in prison over ties with militants.<\/p>\n<p>He was never formally convicted of helping CIA find bin Laden, which led to the May 2011 Navy SEALs operation that killed the al-Qaida mastermind.<\/p>\n<p>Washington seeks Afridi&#8217;s release but Islamabad insists he violated the country&#8217;s laws.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Courtesy: FOX NEWS<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; ISLAMABAD, May 3 (TNS):\u00a0Pakistan&#8217;s foreign ministry says that no &#8220;deal&#8221; is in the works between Islamabad and Washington for the release of Dr. Afridi who helped the United States track down Osama bin Laden in 2011, US media reported. Thursday&#8217;s comment by the ministry&#8217;s spokesman, Mohammad Faisal, came days after Pakistani authorities moved Dr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63462,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63461\/revisions\/63462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}