Pakistan reveals efforts to hunt down Osama bin Laden

- One year since embarrassment of Bin Laden's Abbottabad death, Pakistan is moving itself closer to centre of events

For almost a year, Pakistan's security establishment has been in a state of deep fury and embarrassment over the killing of Osama bin Laden. But its annoyance, US diplomats note, has not been directed at how the world's most wanted man could have lived inside the country for so long, but rather at how a US team could have got in and out of its territory undetected.

So far, there have been no arrests of sympathisers who might have helped Bin Laden move around Pakistan undetected before settling in the town of Abbottabad. Authorities appear more concerned with investigating what they see as a gross violation of sovereignty that badly damaged the prestige and reputation of the powerful Pakistani military.

The only known arrest has been of Shakil Afridi, a Pakistani doctor who worked in Abbottabad as part of the CIA effort to try to pinpoint the al-Qaida chief. A Pakistani commission investigating Bin Laden's death recommended Afridi be charged with "conspiracy against the state of Pakistan and high treason".

But amid efforts on both sides to improve the terrible state of US-Pakistani relations, bitter recriminations are starting to give way to a modest effort by Pakistan's intelligence service to put itself a little nearer the centre of events that led to Bin Laden's killing.
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