Trial of Pakistani doc who tracked bin Laden adjourned

The fresh trial of Shakil Afridi, the Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA track Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, was today adjourned for two weeks because of a strike by lawyers.
Afridi's lawyer Samiullah Afridi told PTI that the case would now be heard by the court of the Political Agent of Khyber tribal region on October 8.
The lawyers went on strike today to protest a Taliban suicide attack on a church here that killed over 80 people.
On August 29, a judicial official overturned the 33-year jail sentence given to Afridi in May last year for allegedly colluding with the banned Lashkar-e-Islam.

Frontier Crimes Regulation Commissioner Sahibzada Mohammad Anees ruled that a judge in Khyber Agency had exceeded his authority when he handed down the sentence last year.
Anees ordered a fresh trial and said it would be heard by the Political Agent of Khyber Agency.

Bin Laden was killed in a unilateral US military raid in the garrison town of Abbottabad in May 2011, sending bilateral relations into a tailspin and embarrassing Pakistan's powerful military.
Afridi, currently being held at the central prison in Peshawar, was accused of running a vaccination campaign in Abbottabad to help the CIA track bin Laden.

Legal experts and rights activists had challenged the jail term given to Afridi.