TERRORISM: Pakistan opened an investigation into the presence of bin Laden in Abbottabad

AFP - Prime Minister of Pakistan announced on Monday an investigation into how Osama bin Laden has been able to live with impunity in its garrison towns, Abbottabad, but he hammered that Pakistan could not be the only country to blame for the existence and acts of Al Qaeda.

"We are determined to find every way how, when and why Osama bin Laden was present in Abbottabad.An investigation was ordered, "said Yousuf Raza Gilani to the deputies of the National Assembly.

But Al Qaeda was not born in Pakistan, "he said in response to charges including Washington, on possible complicity in the army or the Pakistani intelligence.

"Who is responsible for the birth of Al-Qaeda" in the 1990s? Who is responsible for having built the myth of Bin Laden? ", He stressed, in a thinly veiled reference to the United States.

"It is necessary to remind the international community the decade of the 1990s which saw the Arab volunteers to join the jihad (the Afghan mujahedeen against the Soviet occupation, ed) that turned into Al-Qaeda," he added Prime Minister.

Afghan jihadists fighting the Red Army in the 1980s thanks to financial aid and weapons from the CIA, through Pakistan's intelligence services.