Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has insisted his country had not been "complicit" in sheltering slain Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden and said the latter was able to live undetected for so long in Pakistan due to a global 'intelligence failure'.
"There is no complicity. I think it is an intelligence failure from all over the world," the
Guardian quoted Gilani, as saying.
Gilani, who is on a five-day visit to London, said Pakistan was 'part of the solution, not part of the problem' when it came to the 'global issue' of fighting terrorism, adding that 'Osama bin Laden was not a Pakistani'.
He denied suggestions that elements within Pakistan's military may have been aware of bin Laden's hideout in the garrison city of Abbottabad. US Special Forces killed bin Laden on May 2 last year during a raid on his heavily fortified villa.
US State Secretary Hillary Clinton had recently said she believed Ayman-al-Zawahiri,
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