Congress chief Shashi Tharoor has sharply criticised Pakistan for its remedy of Dr. Shakil Afridi, the doctor who helped the US find and eradicate Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, responding to a put up by US Congressman Brad Sherman who urged a visiting Pakistani delegation to press for Dr. Afridi’s launch.
Taking to social media platform X, Sherman wrote, “I urged the Pakistani delegation to relay to their authorities the necessity to free Dr. Shakil Afridi, who continues to languish in jail for serving to the USA kill Osama Bin Laden. Liberating Dr. Afridi represents an essential step in bringing closure for victims of 9/11.”
Reacting to the assertion, Tharoor, who’s at the moment main an All-Celebration Parliamentary Delegation from India to the US, stated: “A welcome reminder by Rep. @BradSherman that Pakistan is the nation that not solely sheltered terrorist mastermind Osama Bin Laden (in a protected home close to a military camp in a cantonment metropolis!) but additionally arrested and punished the courageous physician who recognized his location for the People. In Pakistan you’re rewarded for selling terrorism and persecuted for exposing terrorists!”
Dr Shakil Afridi is a Pakistani physician who helped the US Central Intelligence Company (CIA) within the hunt for al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden.
Afridi served because the senior well being official of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. In 2008, he was kidnapped by Mangal Bagh, a bus driver turned commander of a Pakistani militant group, Lashkar-e-Islam.
The Indian delegation within the US additionally paid homage to Mahatma Gandhi at his statue reverse the Indian Embassy in Washington, persevering with a practice noticed in all of the nations visited.
“As soon as once more, as in all of the nations the delegation visited, we have been in a position to pay homage to Mahatma Gandhi at his statue reverse the Embassy in Washington DC,” Tharoor posted.
He additional famous, “It’s putting what number of world capitals are adorned with statues or busts of the Mahatma, the twentieth century’s best apostle of peace, nonviolence, and human freedom.”
Earlier, the delegation held a major assembly with US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau. The Indian Embassy in Washington shared the replace on the social media platform X, stating:
“The All Celebration Parliamentary delegation led by Dr. @ShashiTharoor had a heat and candid dialog with US Deputy Secretary of State @DeputySecState right this moment. The Indian Delegation briefed him on the atrocities of the Pahalgam terror assault and Operation Sindoor,” the embassy posted.
Earlier on Thursday, the Delegation had an “wonderful assembly” with United States Vice President J.D. Vance in Washington, briefing him about Operation Sindoor, terrorism confronted by India, and regional safety.