
There is ample proof to suggest that he died in 2003 of renal failure in Afghanistan.
RAWALPINDI: It was strange to hear Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani ask who gave Osama bin Laden a visa to come and live in Pakistan. He should know that this is the job of the interior ministry, not the military.
More importantly, why have the prime minister and his party accepted that Osama was alive and living in Pakistan in 2011 as the truth? Anyone with any sense knows that this was drama. There is ample proof to suggest that he died in 2003 of renal failure in Afghanistan.
Lt-Gen. (retd) Ayaz Ahmad
Published in The Express Tribune, December 26th, 2011.