Global Reaction

Bin Laden raid not joint operation with Pakistan

(Agencies)
Updated: 2011-05-03 10:44

WASHINGTON - The killing of Osama bin Laden by US forces was not a joint operation with Pakistan, the president of Pakistan said in an opinion column published on Monday. ?

President Asif Ali Zardari also said in the Washington Post that the whereabouts of the al Qaeda leader, who was killed in a town some two hours north of Islamabad, was not known to the Pakistani authorities. ?

"He was not anywhere we had anticipated he would be, but now he is gone," he wrote. "Although the events of Sunday were not a joint operation, a decade of cooperation and partnership between the United States and Pakistan led up to the elimination of Osama bin Laden as a continuing threat to the civilized world." ?