PESHAWAR -

Sami Ullah Afridi, counsel for Dr Shakil Afridi, has said that his client cannot be convicted  for assisting the CIA because Pakistan and the US are allies in war against terrorism.
Talking to the BBC in Peshawar, he said that the US media had been citing the Abbottabad Commission report despite the fact that the report was not made public in Pakistan therefore such reports cannot be trusted.  He went on to say that if the reports published in the US media are true, even then Shakil Afridi cannot be convicted on the basis of these reports.
"I had met Shakil Afridi 8 months ago in jail. Since then I have been filing applications with the jail authorities but I am not allowed to meet him", he stated.
According to him, the relatives of his client too are not being allowed to meet him.
The US media had claimed, citing the report that Dr Shakil Afridi was in contact with the CIA since five years and had been working as its spy.
The report says that Dr Shakil had made request to get political asylum in the US, citing deteriorating law and order situation in Fata.
The Khyber Agency administration had awarded him 33-year rigorous imprisonment under FCR on the charges of abetting the miscreants and conspiring against the security forces.  The accused had challenged his conviction in the court of Peshawar commissioner. The judgment in his case has been reserved until June 13.