Boxed in: Shakeel Afridi’s family denied new ID cards
PESHAWAR: Authorities have refused to extend temperament cards to a family of Shakeel Afridi, a jailed alloy who helped a CIA hunt for Osama bin Laden, his counsel said, effectively denying them passports and voting rights.
Afridi has been grieving in jail for some-more than 5 years after his feign vaccination programme helped a CIA lane and kill a al Qaeda leader.
His counsel Qamar Nadim told AFP on Wednesday that officials are refusing to replenish Afridi’s wife’s ID card, that over in December, since her husband’s label had over in 2014. He has also been denied a new card.
Officials are likewise refusing to extend new cards to his dual children, pronounced Nadim, who has been denied entrance to his customer for some-more than dual years.
Without an ID label a family can't get passports or vote, register for a phone series or get utilities installed, buy skill or enroll children in school, and could face delays during confidence checkpoints, among other things.
“Why are they punishing a whole family? It’s not justice, it’s cruelty,” Nadim said, adding he will plea a preference in justice in Peshawar this week.
Officials from a interior method did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The refusal to extend ID cards means Afridi’s son and daughter are now confronting problems removing acknowledgment to college, a doctor’s hermit Jamil told AFP.
“So a family can’t go abroad and a children are confronting problems in stability their education,” he said.
Afridi was jailed for 33 years in May 2012 after he was convicted of ties to militants, a assign he has always denied. Some US lawmakers pronounced a box was punish for his assistance in a hunt for a al Qaeda chief.
Published in The Express Tribune, Feb 2nd, 2017.
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