‘We Did Not Invite Osama Bin Laden to Pakistan’

The Takeaway

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani spoke Monday in response to the killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. He defended his government in its claims that they did not know that Osama bin Laden was in the country, strongly denying that there had been any collusion between Pakistan and al-Qaida to shelter bin Laden. The New York Times’ Carlotta Gall reports from Islamabad.

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