Shakil Afridi, the doctor who allegedly worked for the CIA to help track down Osama bin Laden, has gone on a hunger strike at Central Jail in Pakistan’s Peshawar city to protest the jail administration’s ‘ill-treatment’. Afridi, through a fake vaccination campaign, had reportedly provided a lead for the US Navy Seals operation in which the Al Qaeda chief was killed in Abbottabad near Islamabad.

Dr Shakil Afridi was imprisoned at Peshawar’s Central Jail for his alleged links with a militant organisation. File pic