The security of Nato's main supply line into Afghanistan came under threat on Saturday as Pakistani parliamentarians voted to review all aspects of their relationship with the US amid worsening political fallout from the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. The unanimous motion was passed in the early hours of Saturday morning at the conclusion of an extraordinary 10-hour parliamentary session when t
After this story was published, the All Pakistan Muslim League issued a statement denying that there is any truth in the allegation that an agreement had been struck between then military leader of Pakistan, General Pervez Musharraf, and President George Bush, to let American forces conduct operations against bin Laden inside Pakistan. The US and Pakistan struck a secret deal almost a decade ago p
U.S. Was Braced for Fight With Pakistanis in Bin Laden Raid Leon E. Panetta, left, the C.I.A. director, will reportedly talk soon with his Pakistani counterpart, Lt. Gen. Ahmad Shuja Pasha, right.Credit...Alex Brandon/Associated Press, left; Pakistan Press Information Department, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images This article is by Eric Schmitt, Thom Shanker and David E. Sanger. WASHINGTON —
Gilani: ''We did not invite Osama Bin Laden to Pakistan or even Afghanistan'' Pakistan is to launch an investigation into how Osama Bin Laden was able to live in the garrison city of Abbottabad undetected, Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani has told parliament. But he insisted that allegations of Pakistani complicity and incompetence were "absurd". US President Barack Obama has urged Pakistan to inv
In a televised address, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani defended his spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate.Credit...Banaras Khan/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — For the second time in five months, the Pakistani authorities have angered the Central Intelligence Agency by tipping the Pakistani news media to the identity of the C.I.A. station chief in Isl
Myths make large, but reality diminishes. Last night, with the release of images of his dead body vetoed by the US president, the Pentagon, who ordered his death, showed something else: Osama bin Laden alive. Osama reduced to a more human scale than the bogeyman he had become. The four video clips that were released show a man made mute by the removal of the audio that once accompanied these video
As Helene Cooper, a White House correspondent for The New York Times, recalled it: “I was in pajamas on my couch watching a DVR recording of the royal wedding a little before 10 p.m. when the Washington weekend editor, David Joachim, called me to ask if I’d seen the White House bulletin that President Obama was going to make a statement at 10:30. I hadn’t — too busy looking at Prince William and K
6日付の米大衆紙ニューヨーク・ポストは、ニューヨークの米同時多発テロ跡地で5日行われた献花式で、犠牲者遺児の10歳の少年がオバマ大統領に、国際テロ組織アルカイダ指導者ウサマ・ビンラディン容疑者の殺害について「もうちょっとひどくないやり方はなかったの」と“苦言”を呈したと報じた。 殺害が適切だったかどうか内外で疑問の声が上がる中、オバマ氏は子どもからも厳しい声を突き付けられた。 少年は、生後10カ月だった01年9月11日に発生した同時テロで消防隊員だった父を亡くしたクリストファー・カニザーロ君。献花を終えたオバマ氏にビンラディン容疑者が死亡したことを「どう思う」と聞かれ、率直な感想を語ったという。(ニューヨーク共同)
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