The US extermination of bin Laden has left a shamed, embarrassed and humiliated Pakistan, which is at least in the dog house if not up shit creek.
"The operation also highlights that Pakistan is truly at the epicenter of global terrorism," said Heritage Foundation expert and former CIA analyst Lisa Curtis. "The fact that the world's most wanted terrorist was captured in a major Pakistani city should silence those Pakistanis who rejected the idea of bin Laden being in the country as a western conspiracy."
Suspicion is also deep in Washington that Pakistan's military intelligence establishment was sheltering bin Laden, because of his location in a massive compound in a cantonment close to the prominent kakul military academy. Questions are being asked whether the compound was an ISI safehouse.
Warnings also come from Europe. In July last year David Cameron on the first day of his visit to India said that Pakistan could not be allowed to "look both ways" on terrorism.
Pakistan has once again been served with a "either you are with us or against us" notice. US analysts say Islamabad, or more pertinently the country's military establishment in Rawalpindi, now has to make a decisive call to give up using terrorism as a policy option.
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