Pakistan’s civilian leadership has used last week’s killing of Osama bin Laden by US forces to assert its authority over the military, which has ruled the country for most of its history.
Yusuf Raza Gilani, Pakistan’s prime minister, on Monday called on the country’s army chiefs to explain to parliament the intelligence and military failures surrounding the US raid on bin Laden’s hideout in Abbottabad, a garrison town located just 50km from Islamabad, the capital.
Pakistan’s military, its pride wounded by the US operation launched from Afghanistan, has denied that its intelligence services knew bin Laden had taken refuge in a compound close to the country’s most prestigious officers’ training college.
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