While Pakistan was looking at India, US took out Osama

According to a report in The New Yorker detailing the process by which al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was killed by the US, a leading expert has said that it was easy for the US to slip into Pakistani airspace because the army was busy pointing all its radars towards India.

Writes Nicholas Schmidle, "For more than sixty years, Pakistan’s military has maintained a state of high alert against its eastern neighbour, India.

Because of this obsession, Pakistan’s “principal air defenses are all pointing east,” Shuja Nawaz, an expert on the Pakistani Army and the author of Crossed Swords: Pakistan, Its Army, and the Wars Within, told me."

Schmidle continues, "Senior defence and administration officials concur with this assessment, but a Pakistani senior military official, whom I reached at his office, in Rawalpindi, disagreed. “No one leaves their borders unattended,” he said. Though he declined to elaborate on the location or orientation of Pakistan’s radars—“It’s not where the radars are or aren’t”—he said that the American infiltration was the result of “technological gaps we have vis-à-vis the US.”