Allegations in NYT article baseless: army
Bin Laden was killed by the US commandos in a daring operation in May 2011.
RAWALPINDI (Web Desk) - Pakistan Army spokesperson today (Thursday) rebuffed the New York Times article published on March 19, Dunya News reported.
Director General of the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Major General Asim S. Bajwa stated that the allegations in the NYT article were baseless.
The accusations were not credible and all speculations had already been proven wrong, he added.
The Pakistani embassy in Washington also dismissed allegations in a story appearing in The New York Times that linked former Pakistani officials to presence of slain al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden on the country’s soil.
Responding to the New York Times story, a spokesperson of the embassy noted that “senior US officials have on a number of occasions stated on record that they had seen no intelligence linking Government of Pakistan and any of its agencies to OBL’s presence in Abbottabad”.
“To still believe otherwise and to resurrect the issue through unnamed sources and unconfirmed reports does not deserve attention,” the Spokesperson added.
In the NYT article, US journalist Carlotta Gall reported that the then ISI chief Ahmed Shuja Pasha knew of Laden s presence in Pakistan.
