As reported by India Today, Shakil Afridi remains in solitary confinement in Sahiwal Jail in Pakistan’s Punjab province. He’s not allowed to speak to anyone but his family and lawyers. Per former Pakistan ambassador to the United States Husain Haqqani, Afridi “is being kept in prison now only to teach every Pakistani a lesson not to cooperate with a western intelligence agency.” Geo Pakistan reported that two United States officials told Reuters in 2012 that the U.S. offered to resettle Afridi and his family outside of Pakistan in 2011, but Afridi rejected the offer. Afridi wasn’t actually found guilty of anything related to the bin Laden raid; he was convicted by a tribal court of providing money to the banned militant group Lashkar-e-Islam and received a sentence of 33 years. Per the BBC, the United States responded by cutting federal aid to Pakistan by $33 million. 

Former head of Pakistan’s spy agency Asad Durrani told India Today that had Afridi not been arrested, he probably would have been lynched as “[w]henever someone works for a foreign intelligence agency, it’s one of the most unforgivable crimes.” Many Pakistani parents now refuse to have their children vaccinated against diseases like polio, mistrusting all vaccination programs after Afridi’s fake one became so notorious. People have also attacked and gunned down legitimate vaccine workers over the last decade. According to the BBC, the original sentence was reduced to 23 years on appeal. Affridi’s wife and children live in hiding, denying the charges that Afridi funded Lashkar-e-Islam.