Pakistan trained Al Qaeda, says Imran Khan

Asked at the Council for Foreign Relations about how Osama bin Laden had managed to stay in Pakistan undiscovered, Mr Khan said: “The Pakistani Army, ISI [military spy agency], trained al-Qaeda and all these troops to fight in Afghanistan.

“There were always links between—there had to be links, because they trained them.”

He said the links were “probably at lower levels”, and he did not believe military chiefs had known of Bin Laden’s presence.