Sir: Dr Shakeel Afridi has been sentenced to 33 years in jail by a tribal areas Pakistani court. His real crime is that his fake polio campaign has scared off people in FATA who have believed for too long that polio vaccinations were being carefully planned by Zionists to convert Pashtun Muslims into atheists. Last but not the least, his final crime is that his action violated Pakistan’s sovereignty because it led to the killing of a non-Pakistani, Arab-born terrorist, Osama bin Laden, the world’s most wanted man, in search for whom we received millions of dollars and turned over thousands of Pakistani citizens to the CIA. A US senator has called this an ‘outrageous’ and shocking action on the part of the government. The US says that Dr Afridi charged less than the Pakistan government and even took less time to find bin Laden than our government. To add fuel to the fire and in order to show solidarity with Dr Afridi, a symbolic $ 33 million cut to our $ 800 million to be given under foreign assistance aid was made by the US senators. Is it not amazing, when we do things that provide an opportunity to the world to believe that we are not hand-in-glove with al Qaeda? TALAL RAZA Lahore