PAKISTAN’S CREDIBILITY

PAKISTAN CREDIBILITY SUFFERED SERIOUS BLOW AFTER OSAMA'S DEATH: CRS REPORT

The Economic Times, May 7, 2011

WASHINGTON: Pakistan's credibility has suffered a “US blow" in the aftermath of the killing of Osama bin Laden at a compound near its premier military academy in Abbottabad, where the dreaded terrorist had been living for years, a Congressional report has said.
The location and circumstances of bin Laden's killing have “exacerbated Washington's long-held doubts about Pakistan's commitment to ostensibly shared goals of defeating religious extremism, and may jeopardise future US assistance to Pakistan," the Congressional Research Service (CRS) said in its latest report on the implication of the al-Qaeda chief's death.

CRS, an independent research wing of the US Congress, prepares periodic report for lawmakers, which is strictly for circulation among Congressmen.

”For a wide array of observers, the outcome of the years-long hunt for OBL (Osama bin Laden) leaves only two realistic conclusions: either Pakistani officials were at some level complicit in hiding the fugitive, or the country's military and intelligence services were exceedingly incompetent in their search for top AQ (al-Qaeda) leaders," it said.

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