Pakistan Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali called US presidential candidate of the Republican Donald Trump as an arrogant person.
This statement was issued after Trump said that if he wins the election, he will liberate the doctor who helped track Osama bin Laden who is now detained in Pakistan.
"The government of Pakistan and not Donald Trump that will determine the fate of Shakeel Afridi," said Chaudry, Monday (05/03/2016) night.
In an interview with Fox News on Friday, a businessman from New York said, if he became president he would release Afridi in just two minutes.
"I would say, let him free and I am sure Pakistan will free him. Therefore, America has a lot to give assistance to Pakistan," Trump said at the time.
Pakistan has become one of the countries most accepting US aid. In 2015, according to USAID, Pakistan receives 633 million dollars, or around Rp 83 trillion.
However, Chaudhry said, "peanuts" given the US to the country should not be used as a tool to threaten and drag Pakistan into foreign policy Trump chaotic.
"Pakistan is not a US colony. Comments Trump shows not only ketidaksensitifannya but also indifference toward Pakistan," Chaudhry added.
Pakistan accused Shakeel Afridi cooperate with militant groups and imprison him in the weeks after the death of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad on May 2, 2016.
Veracity Pakistan to Afridi was not clear. However, it is known Afridi running a fake vaccination program that is used to obtain genetic samples from Abbottabad who led the CIA to Osama.
The US government responded to the arrest Afridi cut aid to Islamabad by 33 million US dollars with the details of one million dollars for each year of the initial sentence handed down to the doctor.
Pakistan then cut the sentence to Afridi for 10 years but the pressure to release Afridi getting stronger.
Source: kompasnews
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