BBC Online :
A jail sentence handed down to the doctor alleged to have helped the US track down Osama Bin Laden in 2011 has been reduced by 10 years by a Pakistani court.
Shakil Afridi is accused by Pakistan of running a fake vaccination programme to help confirm Bin Laden’s presence in the northern town of Abbottabad.
His original 33-year term on an unrelated charge was widely seen as punishment for his alleged role.
Bin Laden was killed in a US raid.
Special forces entered the al-Qaeda leader’s compound and shot him before flying the body out of Pakistan and burying it at sea.
Doctor’s sentence cut by 10 years
