Pakistan Army, Spy Agency Backed Osama: Officials

Leader of al-Qaeda terrorist network was supported by Pakistani army and intelligence agency, a top Afghan security official said on Tuesday.
Top Afghan security officials, including Defence and Interior Ministers as well as Deputy Chief of National Directorate of Security were summoned to the Senate House on Tuesday.
Briefing senators on security situation in the country, the officials said the death of Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan is a proof that insurgent safe havens and sanctuaries are in Pakistan.
The international community should understand this reality, officials emphasised.
"He was not having a guerrilla style life there. Pakistan's army and Inter Services-intelligence (ISI) were supporting him," Interior Minister Gen. Besmellah Mohammadi told senators.
Suicide attacks should be prevented from the places where they are masterminded and organised, Defence Minister Gen. Rahim Wardak said.
"The commanding system of al-Qaeda had lost its focus. They were not controlled from one single location," Gen. Rahim Wardak said. "It could bring a change in the intensity of war in the long run."
Government Information and Media Centre has said international community should target other insurgent leaders, including leader of the Taliban Mullah Mohammad Omar outside Afghan borders the same as Osama Bin Laden was targeted.
"We hope all those responsible for death of innocent people in Afghanistan and all across the world face their due punishment," Head of Government Information and Media Centre Hakim Asher told TOLOnews.
Analysts say other militant leaders, including the Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, leader of Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, and leader of the Haqqani network are in Pakistan being directly supported by Pakistan's ISI.
"The bottom line is Pakistan's spy agency that wants to support and fuel these extremist insurgent groups in pursuit of their national interests," Afghanistan's former ambassador in Britain Ahmad Wali Massoud told TOLOnews.