DAVOS (JAN 19, 2017): Abbottabad operation was ‘confidential’ and Pakistan was not informed about it, a former US ambassador disclosed on Wednesday.
Cameron Munter, who was the US ambassador to Pakistan from 2010-2012, revealed that Islamabad was unaware of the presence of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in the northwestern garrison town of Abbottabad.
“Those who claimed that Pakistan knew about the whereabouts of bin Laden were wrong,” Munter told journalists at a dinner reception for Pakistan’s ex-army chief Raheel Sharif, in Davos.
He admitted the killing of the Al Qaeda leader inside Pakistan further deepened mistrust between the two countries. “Terrible mistakes were made due to deep mistrust.”
Al-Qaeda founder and chief Osama Bin Laden was killed in Abbottabad district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on May 2, 2011, by US Navy SEAL of the Special Warfare Development Group (also known as DEVGRU.)
The get-Osama operation created deep mistrust between the US and Pakistan, Munter maintained, adding that over the past three years, relations between the two countries had significantly improved.
