Dr Shakeel Afridi

Dr Shakil Afridi, a Pakistani doctor serving a 33-year jail term for helping the CIA in tracking down al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden to Abbottabad in 2011 could be released this month after authorities remitted 10 years of his sentence, according to his lawyer.

Doctor Shakeel Afridi was sacked on disciplinary grounds by the government in Northwest province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where Bin Laden was killed during a clandestine US raid last May that humiliated Pakistan.

Dr Shakil Afridi, a Pakistani doctor serving a 33-year jail term for helping the CIA in tracking down al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden to Abbottabad in 2011 could be released this month after authorities remitted 10 years of his sentence, according to his lawyer.

Doctor Shakeel Afridi was sacked on disciplinary grounds by the government in Northwest province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where Bin Laden was killed during a clandestine US raid last May that humiliated Pakistan.