Pakistani report condemns US bin Laden raid

The Pakistani commission set up to probe the raid and efforts to capture Osama bin Laden has condemned the US decision to unilaterally launch its operation without seeking permission from Islamabad.

The Abottabad Commission's report called the US action the 'greatest humiliation' Pakistan had suffered since the seccession of Bangladesh in 1971.

The report stated that the American raid demonstrated the US's "contemptuous disregard of Pakistan's sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity in the arrogant certainty of … unmatched military might".

In October, US President Barack Obama defended the decision to keep Pakistan in the dark, saying:
"If we had asked Pakistan (for) permission, we would not have gotten him."
See the Telegraph for full report.

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