A US Senate committee has cut aid to Pakistan by 33 million dollars a year in response to the jailing of a Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA track down Osama Bin laden. Dr Shakil Afridi was sentenced to at least 33 years imprison for treason for helping the US to locate the Al Qaeda leader in the town of Abbottabad. From Washington, Jonny Diamond reports.

一名帮助中央情报局追踪本拉登下落的巴基斯坦医生被本国判以监禁，为此，美国参议院委员会决定对巴基斯坦每年削减3300万美元的援助。医生沙基勒·阿夫里迪因帮助美国在阿伯塔巴德寻找本拉登下落而以叛国罪判以33年监禁，Jonny Diamond在华盛顿报道。

The Senate Appropriations Committee has cut the billion dollars that the US gives Pakistan annually by one million dollars for every year imprison that Dr Afridi was sentenced to. "A schizophrenic ally", one senator called Pakistan, "Allice in Wonderland", was how another described the talk of cooperation between Washington and Islamabad. The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee called Dr Afridi's imprisonment a very sad day.

参议院拨款委员会削减美国每年给巴基斯坦的拨款，阿夫里迪每被监禁一年就削减100万美元。一名参议员称巴基斯坦是“精神分裂症的盟友”，称华盛顿和伊斯坦布尔之间的谈判是“爱丽丝梦游仙境”。参议院情报委员会主席称阿夫里迪被判刑这天很令人伤心。