Washington: Chairwoman United States Senate Intelligence Committee Dianne Feinstein charged Monday that Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden could not have lived in Pakistan without some official involvement.
While talking to reporters Feinstein demanded Pakistan to do more to fight Islamist extremists or risk souring ties.
She said, “I think either we are going to be allies in fighting terror, or the relationship makes less and less sense to me.” She realized cuts in billions in US aid absent a course correction in Islamabad.
Meanwhile some US lawmakers have called for stepping up help to Pakistan, “I feel a little differently,” said Feinstein who complained that “we provide funds, we try to help the government wherever we can” and get little in return.
“It is becoming increasingly problematic,” she said. “I thoroughly agree with the administration’s request that Pakistan take a good look at what the support services were for bin Laden.”
Feinstein said it was “incomprehensible” that bin Laden could live unperturbed for six years in “a military community” in Pakistan before the May 2 raid in which US Navy Seals commandos shot Al Qaeda leader dead.
While Pakistan has denied knowingly allowing the world’s most hunted man to live in relative luxury, “I just don’t believe it,” said Feinstein, who stressed “that level of complicity is really a problem.”
Feinstein charged that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) have been “essentially favoring the Haqqani network, who attacks our troops in Afghanistan.”
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