Pakistani Army Chief warns US

In response to the US lead team’s killing of Osama bin Laden, Pakistan’s Army Chief General Kayani had warned the US that “similar action violating the sovereignty of Pakistan will warrant a review on the level of military/intelligence cooperation with the United States”. Citing a statement issued by General Kayani’s press office and sources cited from ‘a closed meeting with Pakistani reporters’, Jane Perlez thus reported in the New York Times.

The statement by the Pakistani army’s press office said, “Any similar action violating the sovereignty of Pakistan will warrant a review on the level of military/intelligence cooperation with the United States.”

“General Kayani had decided that the number of American troops in Pakistan was to be reduced ‘to the minimum essential’”, the report quoted.

Reporting on the killing of Osama bin Laden, The Christian Science Monitor, (May 5, 2011) reported: “Observers normally reluctant to criticise the military - this country’s most powerful and popular institution - are now publicly asking why Pakistan’s main intelligence agency apparently had no knowledge of bin Laden’s presence and why the military appeared to be caught unaware of the US raid.”