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Pakistan worried about Islamist infiltration

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WASHINGTON - AFP

Top Pakistani military officials are concerned that their ranks have been penetrated by Islamists aiding militants in a campaign against the state, according to The Washington Post. The top Pakistani military commander, General Ashfaq Kayani, was shaken by the discovery of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden close to a Pakistani military academy, the newspaper said. He told US officials in a recent meeting that his first priority was \"bringing our house in order,\" the paper reported, citing an unnamed senior Pakistani intelligence official. \"We are under attack, and the attackers are getting highly confidential information about their targets,\" The Post quotes the official as saying. Western officials have long accused Pakistan\'s intelligence services of playing a double game by fighting Islamist militants who pose a domestic threat, but protecting those fighting American troops in Afghanistan. The United States has put pressure on Pakistan to lead a major air and ground offensive in North Waziristan, the most notorious Taliban and Al-Qaeda bastion, used to launch attacks across the border in Afghanistan. Pakistan has always maintained that any such operation would be at its own time of choosing. It argues that its 140,000 troops committed to the northwest are too stretched those fighting militants who pose a domestic threat. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, visiting Pakistan on Friday, said the United States was more committed to Pakistan after the Osama bin Laden crisis. But she urged the country to take decisive steps to defeat Al-Qaeda. According to The Post, US officials say they have no evidence that top Pakistani military or civilian leaders knew about bin Laden’s hiding place. Some say they doubt Kayani or Lieutenant General Ahmed Shuja Pasha, head of the military’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency, had direct knowledge, the report said. Others however, find it hard to believe they did not, particularly because Kayani was head of the ISI in 2005, when bin Laden is believed to have taken refuge in Abbottabad, the paper noted. US Navy commandos killed bin Laden there on May 2 in a raid that angered Islamabad because of US incursion on to their territory without prior notice.

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