Incompetence aspect being looked into: Salman Bashir
May 5th, 2011 - 5:08 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, May 5 (IANS) The issue of whether Pakistan had been “incompetent” in the Osama bin Laden affair was being looked into, Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir said Thursday.
He was responding to CIA chief Leon Panetta’s comment that Pakistan had been either “involved or incompetent”.
Bashir dismissed the accusation that Pakistan was involved but said the aspect of incompetence “was being looked into”.
If it was an intelligence failure, he said, then Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani had already said that it was global intelligence failure.
Osama bin Laden was killed by US commandos May 2 in Abbottabad city.
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