U.S. special forces flew in from
Afghanistan to find and kill bin Laden
at his hideout in a northern Pakistani
town on May 2.
Pakistan welcomed the killing of bin
Laden as a major step against
militancy but was outraged by the
secret U.S. raid that got him, saying
it was a violation of its sovereignty.
The discovery of bin Laden in the
town of Abbottabad, near the
country's top military academy,
has, however, deepened suspicion
in the United States that Pakistani
security forces knew where he was
hiding.
Bin Laden's followers have vowed
revenge for his death and the
Pakistani Taliban said the Friday
attack by two suicide bombers on a
paramilitary academy in the
northwestern town of Charsadda
was their first taste of vengeance.
"There will be more," militant
spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said
by telephone from an undisclosed
location.
The attackers struck as the recruits
were going on leave and 65 of them
were among the 80 dead. Pools of
blood strewn with soldiers caps and
shoes lay on the road outside the
academy as the wounded, looking
dazed with parts of their clothes
ripped away by shrapnel, were
loaded into trucks.
Shahid Ali, 28, was on his way to
his shop when the bombs went off.
He tried to help survivors. "A young
boy was lying near a wrecked van
asked me to take him to hospital. I
got help and we got him into a
vehicle," Ali said.
Hours after the bombing, a U.S.
drone aircraft fired missiles at a
vehicle in the North Waziristan
region on the Afghan border, killing
five militants, Pakistani security
officials said.
It was the fourth drone attack since
bin Laden was killed, inflaming
another sore issue between Pakistan
and the United States. Pakistan
officially objects to these attacks,
saying they violate its sovereignty. It
also says the civilians casualties
complicate its efforts to fight
militants by gaining the support of
local villagers.
The United States says the drone
strikes are carried out under an
agreement with Pakistan and it has
made clear it will go after militants in
Pakistan when it finds them.
Pakistan Taliban turn against
state
The bomb attack was a grim
reminder of the militant threat
Pakistan faces even as bin Laden's
discovery 50 km (30 miles) from
the capital has revived suspicion of
Pakistani double-dealing.
The Pakistan Taliban, close allies of al
Qaeda, are fighting to bring down
the nuclear-armed state and impose
their vision of Islamist rule. They
launched their war in earnest in
2007, after security forces cleared
militant gunmen from a radical
mosque in the capital, killing about
100 people.
Pakistan has long used militants as
proxies to oppose the influence of its
old rival India, and is widely believed
to be helping some factions even
while battling others.
It has rejected as absurd
suggestions its security agencies
might have known where bin Laden
was hiding.
The United States has long pressed
Pakistan to tackle Afghan Taliban
taking shelter in Pakistani enclaves
on the border but the chance of
greater cooperation with the United
States appears to have been dented
by the U.S. raid to get bin Laden.
The chairman of Pakistan's joint
chiefs of staff committee, General
Khalid Shameem Wynne, has
canceled a five-day visit to the
United States beginning on May 22.
"He called his U.S. counterpart ...
and informed him that the visit
could not be undertaken under
existing circumstances," a military
official told Reuters.
He did not elaborate but the decision
to cancel the visit came as the
cabinet defense committee said it
was reviewing cooperation with the
United States on counter-terrorism.
The parameters of such cooperation
would be clearly defined "in
accordance with Pakistan's national
interests and the aspirations of the
people," the committee said in a
statement.
The military and government have
also come in for criticism at home,
partly for failing to find bin Laden
but more for failing to detect or stop
the unauthorized U.S. raid to kill
him.
Army chief General Ashfaq Kayani
will be at a closed-door briefing by
military officials to parliament later
on Friday.
Some U.S. lawmakers have called
for suspending aid to Pakistan
because of doubts about its
commitment in going after violent
Islamists.
But President Barack Obama's
administration has stressed the
importance of maintaining
cooperation with Pakistan in the
interests of battling militancy and
bringing stability to neighboring
Afghanistan.

The US didn't give Bin Ladin fair hearing

Yea.