When the President Asif Ali Zardari phone ringing at 1: 15 am Monday, it was President Barack Obama on the line, with news that an operation of U.S. to eliminate Osama bin Laden and recover his body had been successful. That phone call, Pakistani officials say the time, is the first that their Government heard of a U.S. military operation conducted only three hours drive from Islamabad. No there was no confusion between the obvious mistrust of Washington in the timeline: Pakistan's military establishment only learned of the raid while it was too late, according to the Government and the military authorities. U.S. helicopters were stung by Afghanistan without being detected, as Pakistani radar had been frozen. The Pakistani Government, in a statement, attempted to explain this phenomenon more further by saying, the choppers have benefited from the "blind points in radar due to hilly terrain coverage." At the time where Pakistani hunters depart to continue their, it was too late.
The discovery and the death of bin Laden on Pakistani soil has been a source of great embarrassment here. Throughout the course of Monday, the Government and the armed struggle to form a response. Some awkward facts officials tried to suggest that there was a form of cooperation, but a Government statement Tuesday conceded that Pakistan was kept out of the loop. A senior Pakistani army tells time that they were unaware of the raid, but drew the attention of the comments made by Obama and by the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, insisting on the fact that there had been cooperation of Pakistani intelligence involving first at the United States on the runway which allowed them to locate compound of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad. (See the photos of the Lair of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan).
Still, Pakistani officials believe the United States decision to leave them in the dark was based on the deep mistrust. "These actions undermine cooperation and can sometimes be [a] threat to the peace and security", added the statement of the Government of Pakistan. The Pakistani military official would not comment on the question of whether the army or its intelligence service, the Directorate of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), had been aware of the compound or presence of Osama bin Laden. The ISI had a descent in the same compound in 2003, pursuing al-Qaeda leader Faraj al-Libi. This raid, they insist, was crucial to his arrest the following year. Since then, focus derived from the area, but officials insist that the ISI has also recently last month has provided the CIA with intelligence on the presence of foreigners y. The US authorities, however, seem to believe that at least some security Pakistani establishment had knowledge of the presence of Osama bin Laden. And Pakistanis believe this staging a raid of such deep inside Pakistani territory without compensation from the first operation with Pakistani authorities "was a lesson", said a senior Pakistani official.
Despite the mistrust between them, however, the United States and Pakistan have no choice but to continue their tense relationship. Marc Grossman, President Obama Afghanistan and Pakistan's Special Envoy arrived for talks with senior Pakistani officials on Tuesday. His message, paraphrased by a cynical Pakistani official, was that Washington is prepared to work with Pakistan if they behave as a "good boys". Visit Grossman took place during the prévuse visit to meet with senior Pakistani and Afghan officials. But the raid of bin Laden was preparing great in his meetings with the Pakistani. (Watch the announcement of President Obama of the death of Osama Ben Laden.)
Relations between the two parties had reached the lowest point in the weeks preceding the raid of bin Laden. Following this impasse of six weeks on the fate of Raymond Davis, a contractor for the CIA who had killed two Pakistani men, an incident in Lahore in February there were fierce disagreements on the use of CIA drone frappes targeting suspected militants in the tribal areas.
Pakistani officials expect Washington to use their embarrassment on Ben Laden take advantage of cooperation more of them. One of the consequences should be a renewed escalation of drone - there have been strikes that two since March 17. It may also be more pressure on Pakistan to help the United States in Afghanistan. Washington is deeply concerned about the links between the ISI and the Haqqani network, based in North Waziristan, whose fighters are among the fiercest NATO Afghanistan face. Pakistan has long been against groups of Taliban resisted limit their activities to fight against the forces of the West across the border. The Pakistani army usually meets the coast of the pressure of the U.S. with a plea that he overstretched too to launch a military offensive in Waziristan in the North, and that other priority challenges. Now, it can be pressed in the launch of the campaign to the United States has long sought. (See the photos of the battle against the Taliban).
Greater cooperation with the United States on the Afghanistan would limit the ability of Pakistan to shape the final of the Afghanistan his own interests, which include cementing a key role in its pro-Taliban in post - U.S. allies. If the Pakistani side had used the confrontation on Davis to push back against the United States, the raid of bin Laden put on the defensive.
In addition to the growing pressure of the United States, Pakistan in security also faces a challenge from the inside. Awareness that it was impossible to find the bin Ladens in its own backyard, or other hid him, has further eroded the confidence of the public. "They were taken with their pants down,", says a senior political opposition, asking to remain anonymous. In particular, there was little outrage in this raid, which will come to the relief of American officials and Pakistani. While militant groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba has condemned the murder and offered funeral prayers in his honour, no there was no great show of rage in the streets. But the Pakistani Taliban have made their ordinary intention. Regardless of the facts, they are convinced that the Pakistan helped to get bin Laden - and they have promised to take revenge in Pakistan's cities.
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