Recall US envoy to Pak until Afridi is released: Lawmaker

An influential American lawmaker has said that until a Pakistani doctor, who helped CIA trace Osama bin Laden, is released from prison, the US should recall its envoy from Islamabad and block aid to the country.
"We should take this opportunity to initiate a forceful strategy to save this hero rather than the quiet diplomacy the US State Department has been insisting on and the Republican leadership of the House has acquiesced to," Congressman Dana Rohrabacher said.
The Republican lawmaker from California is Chairman of House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats.
"The US Ambassador should be recalled and legislation should be passed to withhold foreign aid to Pakistan as long as they are doing the bidding of terrorists and persecuting the likes of Dr Afridi," he said in a statement, amid reports that Afridi was on a hunger strike in a Pakistani jail.

"Dr Afridi is showing us, in a courageous way, that quiet diplomacy isn't working. He was bold enough to help the US bring justice to the mass murderer Osama Bin Laden but unfortunately the actions of the American government have been cowardly in comparison," Rohrabacher said.
Osama was killed in a raid by the US Navy SEALS on his Abbottabad compound in Pakistan in May 2011.