Washington: Pakistan must pay attention to US “concerns” about its efforts to combat extremists, a senior US senator said Tuesday, warning the US wanted to keep good ties with Islamabad “but not at any price.”
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, a senior US lawmaker, expressed deep reservations about relations with Pakistan amid ties strained after the US raid that killed Osama Bin Laden in Abottabad, Pakistan.
Levin, a Democrat, said amid anger in Washington that Bin Laden lived in peace for years near a Pakistani military academy.
Levin said Islamabad should give US interrogators access to three of the Bin Laden’s widows who lived with him at the time of US operation that killed Osama Bin Laden in Abbottabad on May 2.
“That would show that they were trying to be responsive to our concerns. They ought to respond to our concerns,” said the senator, who cautioned that cooperation against extremists “should not be dependent upon certain moods of either party.”
The US is keen to query the three widows of Bin Laden in hopes of finding out more details of Al-Qaeda’s reach and organization, as well as details of Bin Laden’s life last years.
Levin said Washington should formally object to Pakistan leaking the name of the CIA station chief in Islamabad “if they leaked it,” but acknowledged that this would be unlikely to have much force amid anti-US anger there.
“They are trying to show that they are not responding affirmatively to too many things we are asking for these days,” he said.
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