London, May 2 (IANS) Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf said Monday that he was surprised Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was in Abbottabad, just a short distance from the capital Islamabad.
‘It does surprise me. I don’t know the details,’ Musharraf told CNN-IBN, after US President Barack Obama announced in Washington that the world’s most wanted terrorist had been killed in a US-led operation.
Musharraf, who was the Pakistan president during the 9/11 strike, said the operation by US forces was a ‘violation of our sovereignty’.
Responding to a query, Musharraf said: ‘If there is lack of trust, it is very bad. We are fighting the same enemy.’
He said the operation was a failure of intelligence, ‘a failure of both Pakistani and US intelligence’.
