Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- The Pakistani Taliban vowed on Thursday to kill Shakeel Afridi, the jailed Pakistani doctor accused of helping the CIA in the search for Osama bin Laden, a spokesman for the militant group told CNN. "We will cut him into pieces when we find him," Pakistani Taliban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan told CNN by phone. "He spied for the U.S. to hunt down our hero Osama bin Laden." Pakistani officials say Afridi is being held in a prison in the city of Peshawar in northwest Pakistan. Last week a court in Pakistan's tribal region sentenced Afridi to 33 years in prison but a copy of the court order obtained by CNN shows Afridi was sentenced for alleged connections to the militant group Lashkar-e-Islam, not for helping Americans in the search for bin Laden.
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The Taliban says the doctor is No. 1 on its hit list
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A tribal court judgment says Shakeel Afridi had ties to Lashkar-e-Islam
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Officials disclosed earlier that the doctor was convicted for spying
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He was accused of helping find Osama bin Laden through a fake vaccination program
On Wednesday the jailed doctor's brother told CNN he fears for Afridi's safety and called on the @placeholder to help set him free.