Musharraf On Osama

• Musharraf says no complicity on Osama bin Laden

  Former president Pervez Musharraf insisted on Thursday that Pakistan did not provide assistance to Osama bin Laden as he renewed criticism of the US raid that killed the world's most wanted man.On a visit to Washington, Musharraf staunchly defended Pakistan's military and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) service which have long come under US suspi...

• Bush says he 'wasn't overjoyed' by Osama news

  George W. Bush says he was "not overjoyed" when President Barack Obama told him Osama bin Laden was dead because the campaign to track down the al-Qaida leader was done not "out of hatred, but to exact judgment."The former president who initiated the hunt for bin Laden after 9/11 made his first candid public comments on bin Laden's killing Wednesda...

• 'Rogue' elements in ISI, Pak army may have helped Osama: Musharraf

  Calling Pakistani intelligence's failure to detect Osama bin Laden's presence in Abbottabad a ''massive slip-up,'' ex-President Pervez Musharraf has admitted that ''rogue'' members of ISI and military may have helped the Al Qaeda chief hide in plain sight in the garrison city.     Musharraf, who lives in Britain in self-exile, said t...

• Musharraf denies 'US secret deal' reports

  Via his Facebook page, General Pervez Musharraf has denied that he had agreed in 2001 for America to conduct a unilateral operation in Pakistan to kill Osama Bin Laden if the terrorist was located in Pakistan.  The Guardian newspaper reported this morning that after bin Laden managed to escape from the Tora Bora mountains, the General, who was...

• US, Pak agreed on Osama mission in secret deal 10 yrs ago: Report

  In a secret deal struck a decade ago, the US and Pakistan agreed that Washington will carry out a unilateral operation against Osama bin Laden on Pakistani soil if he was found there following which Islamabad would vociferously protest the incursion, a media report said today. The then military leader Gen Pervez Musharraf and then US President Geor...

• Musharraf wants probe for intelligence failure on Osama

  Surprised that Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was living in an affluent suburb of Islamabad, Pakistan's former military ruler Pervez Musharraf has demanded an investigation into the failure of intelligence agencies to get any clue about this."I do understand that because he being there in the town of Abbottabad is surprising. It surprises me also. ...

• US Has Violated Our Sovereignity: Musharraf

  Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf said Monday he was surprised Osama bin Laden was in Abbottabad, just a short distance from capital Islamabad. He also termed the US strike against the Al Qaeda leader a violation of Pakistan's sovereignty."It does surprise me but I don't know the details. I don't know whether he was staying there or was h...

• US has violated our sovereignty: Musharraf

  Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf said on Monday he was surprised Osama bin Laden was in Abbottabad, just a short distance from capital Islamabad. He also termed the US strike against the Al Qaeda leader a violation of Pakistan's sovereignty."It does surprise me but I don't know the details. I don't know whether he was staying there or wa...