The Pakistani medical official who ran a fake CIA vaccination programme to help find Osama bin Laden has been jailed for 33 years.u00a0A spokesman for Khyber Agency, an administrative unit in Pakistan’s restless frontier, said Dr Shakil Afridi would face decades in jail — despite calls from senior US officials to release the man who helped with efforts to track down the al-Qaeda chief.

Medical aid: Dr Shakil Afridi (inset) helped US officials confirm if Osama Bin Laden lived in Abbottabad by organising fake vaccination programmes. File pics