Pakistani minister accused Donald Trump of "ignorance"

Trump: The doctor was tried for links with extremists and sentenced to 33 years in prison, later reduced to 23 years

The minister of Pakistan's Interior accused Donald Trump of ignorance after the Republican candidate for the presidency of the United States he said that reaching the White House intends to withdraw from the prison doctor who helped find Osama Bin Laden.

Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said that will be the "Government of Pakistan and not Donald Trump" will decide the fate of the Pakistani doctor Shakeel Afridi, who is being held five years after organizing a fake vaccination campaign against hepatitis C and that served to confirm the presence of Bin Laden in the Pakistani city of Abbottabat.

The doctor was tried for links with extremists, a charge of little credibility, and sentenced to 33 years in prison, later reduced to 23 years.

Thanks to the information obtained by the doctor, a command of the US special forces killed bin Laden on May 2, 2011 in a night attack on his home in Abbottabad.

Islamabad considered a humiliation to US military intervention in its territory, which strained relations with Washington and complicated the case of the doctor.

In an interview last week on Fox News, Trump said that to the presidency, Afridi will come out of prison "in two minutes", in a reference to the large financial aid from the United States to Pakistan.


The Pakistani minister said that the country "is not a colony of the United States" and added that the comments of the American tycoon "demonstrate their insensitivity and also his ignorance of Pakistan."