Mukhtar tells involvement of Army, govt in killing Osama

Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar Wednesday revealed the involvement of Pakistan’s government and army in killing Osama Bin Laden last year. He was talking to a foreign media on the occasion of first death anniversary of Osama. He claimed Pakistan had traced Osama by locating a phone SIM and Dr. Afridi should have given the information to Pakistan rather than United States. Ahmad Mukhtar stated Army has weakened the network of Al-Qaeda and it is not the group that can harm Pakistan. He said the phone SIM was not used for several days and sometimes conversations comprised of few dialogues. The Defence Minister said they had agreement with the U.S to hand over them a data having Arabic and English conversation and U.S had to provide them with the data of Urdu conversation when found. He said the luggage found from the compound of OSAMA is in the custody of the army and investigation is continued in this regard and time will be consumed in decoding the CD’s. When asked a question that PM Yousuf Raza Gilani asked in the Parliament on which visa OSAMA was staying here, the Defence Minister replied the PM might have asked the army about that. Answering another question, he said opponent of the government would try to trap government in the light of Abbotabad commission report but he expected better outcome.

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