Pakistan's military threatened on Thursday to review its cooperation with the United States if Washington carries out another raid on its territory similar to the one in which US Special Forces killed Osama Bin Laden, reported Agence-France Presse.
Pakistan’s government and military have faced embarrassment at home after the US announced that it had shared information on Mr. Bin Laden’s raid with "no other country."
The opposition in Pakistan considered the raid a blow to the nuclear Muslim country’s sovereignty.
The Pakistan Muslim League (N), led by former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, condemned the operation and said that it was "the sole right of our national institutions to take any action on country’s soil," reported Dawn newspaper.
Jamaat-e-Islami, Pakistan’s largest religious party, plans to hold nationwide demonstrations on Friday to protest the US raid, its party leader Munawar Hasan told the media.
"Americans have flouted our sovereignty and freedom on such a big scale," Mr. Hasan said.
Meanwhile, Pakistan found itself in the dock internationally for having allegedly failed to detect Bin Laden’s whereabouts.
Pakistan’s military admitted to intelligence "shortcomings" on pinpointing the Al-Qaeda chief’s location and ordered an investigation, reported Reuters.
The acknowledgement came after army Chief of Staff General Ashfaq Kayani convened a meeting of corps commanders, four days after Bin Laden was killed in Abbottabad, a military cantonment not far from Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital.
"While admitting [its] shortcomings" in developing intelligence on Bin Laden’s whereabouts, the meeting said "achievements" by military intelligence against Al-Qaeda and other terror groups were without parallel.
In Bin Laden’s case, the military said the CIA developed intelligence based on initial information provided by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency but did not share further developments with them.
Debate in the US has focused on whether Pakistan was hiding Bin Laden for years in one of their country’s main military centers. CIA director Leon Panetta, in a May 3 interview with Time magazine, said US officials planning the raid "decided that any effort to work with the Pakistanis could jeopardize the mission" because "they might alert the targets."
Senator Carl Levin, Democrat of Michigan, and other US lawmakers have called for a review of aid to Pakistan, which in 2010 rose to $4.35 billion, according to the Congressional Research Service.