Following the death of Osama bin Laden on May 2, 2011, “A rash of statements from world leaders and the international media held the Pakistan Army either totally culpable in hiding Bin Laden or totally incompetent in not discovering his whereabouts, leading to further public outrage and despair. For years, President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan had told the United States and NATO that Pakistan was hosting Al Qaeda and the Taliban; now he lashed out at them for not believing him: ‘Year after year, day after day, we have said the fighting against terrorism is not in the villages of Afghanistan… [but] is in safe havens. It proves that Afghanistan was right.’ ”
– Ahmed Rashid, Pakistan on the Brink, Page 10