Pakistan dismisses US report on Osama bin Laden
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Islamabad, March 20, IRNA -- Pakistan on Thursday dismissed as 'ridiculous and baseless' American media reports that the countrys intelligence agency had protected al-Qaeda chief, Osama bin Laden, who was killed in Abbotabad by the US military in 2011.
The New York Times reported in an article on Wednesday that Pakistans then Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Chief Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha knew where Osama bin Laden had been hiding.
The Pakistan military angrily reacted to the report by a British journalist, Carlotta Gall.
The allegations Carlotta Gal in NYT on March 19 are baseless and ridicules, the army spokesman, Major Gen. Asim Bajwa said.
Gen. Bajwa said there is nothing new and credible and all speculations have already been proven false.
The Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Tasnim Aslam also rejected the New York Times report as unfounded and malicious. She said the media organizations lose credibility when they publish such stories.
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