Don’t show mercy to foreign agents

There is no gainsaying the fact that Shakeel Afridi was CIA agent. This was confirmed by both the then CIA-Director Leon Panetta and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. America wants us to release him from the gaol for handing him over to it. May one ask Washington that were he a US citizen found guilty of working for some foreign country against the US, what would have been the reaction of US government ?What is sauce for the goose must be sauce for the gander too. Pakistan has very rightly rejected Washington’s offer to exchange him for Dr Afia. There were also reports that Washington has been trying to air lift him to the US through a commando type action.
The spies are untrustworthy people. How can a person who is not faithful to the country where he was born and bred can remain faithful to the country he had spied for?
There was an American CIA agent by the name of Harold James Nicholson. He was spying for his country in Soviet Union. Strange though it may appear, he was found to double cross his country by selling US intelligence to Russia and was sentenced by the Americans for 23 years jail term. Robert Philip Hanssen , another American spy, was also sentenced to 22 years for spying for Soviet Union. Miller and Earl Pitts were FBI agents but they were won by the Soviets and they were paid handsome amounts by the Russians for getting classified American intelligence. The upshot of reference to these few instances is that the US had given stern punishments to those of its citizens who had sold it down the river. Why should US now expect us to take a lenient view of its citizen who had betrayed us by working for a foreign intelligence agency?