Osama bin Laden death: Pakistan says US may have breached sovereignty

Pakistan's foreign minister said on Thursday that US forces may have breached his country's sovereignty, raising fresh doubts about the legality of killing Osama bin Laden.

Clutching UN security council documents, Salman Bashir said: "There are legal questions that arise in terms of the UN charter. Everyone ought to be mindful of their international obligations."

His comments, at a press conference in Islamabad, may have been aimed as much at preventing India from launching a unilateral raid on Pakistan territory in revenge for the 2008 Mumbai massacres as reproaching Washington.

Bashir added that this "violation of sovereignty, and the modalities for combating terrorism, raises certain legal and moral issues which fall ... in the domain of the international community".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/05/osama-bin-laden-pakistan-us-sovereignty

Al Quaeda violated our sovereignty with some hijacked planes flying into occupied buildings, killing thousands, I seem to recall.

Look busy, Pakistan. No one will notice you're incompetent.

C'mon Salman we'd still be hunting for OBL if Obama had brought your country in on it. If there are any moral/legal issues, it's for you to explain how OBL managed to remain 'hidden' from the world for all of these years. If your country would get serious about harboring terrorists, extra-legal action would be un-unecessary.

Then we can talk about violations of sovereignty.