Washington: A Senate panel expressed its outrage over the conviction of a Pakistani doctor who helped the US get Osama Bin Laden by slashing aid by $33 million — $1 million for every year of the doctor's 33-year sentence.
The Appropriations Committee approved the amendment 30-0 on Thursday as Republicans and Democrats widely criticised Pakistan's conviction of Shakil Afridi for high treason a day earlier.
Afridi ran a vaccination program for the CIA to collect DNA and verify Bin Laden's presence at the compound in the town of Abbottabad where US commandos killed the Al Qaida leader in May 2011.
The United States has called for Afridi to be released.
The vote came on a $52 billion foreign aid budget for next year.
