On air at 1100GMT: What does bin Laden's death mean for Pakistan?
| 09:59 UK time, Tuesday, 3 May 2011
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The world's most wanted man seemingly lived just a short distance from a Pakistan military academy for years. Although Osama bin Laden is now dead, the questions his death raises come thick and fast. Is the Pakistani government soft on terror? How could they not know he was there? In an opinion piece in the Washington Post, Mr Zardari said his country was "perhaps the world's greatest victim of terrorism".
The US launched the operation on bin Laden's compound in the dead of night without even telling the Pakistani authorities, so did they feel they couldn't be trusted?
The British Prime Minister David Cameron says Pakistan has over how Osama bin Laden was allowed to live so close to the country's capital and alongside a military academy.
WhatÌý will be the impact now on Pakistan? Many people from the country getting in touch with World Have Your Say yesterday told us they fear for their country's future, that there could be a resurgence of extremism and ultimately Pakistan could become more unstable.
Imran Khan, the former Pakistani cricketer, now a leading opposition politician, said citizens are growing increasingly worried about revenge attacks:
"Never have I seen such embarrassment in Pakistan amongst the people and also fear - fear that we are now in a nutcracker situation. For Pakistanis this has been a total disaster. There is a lot of fear. Everywhere I go people are worried about the fall-out."
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Author Salman Rushdie believes it is
For today's early edition of the show we'll be joined by our colleague Owen Bennett Jones who has spent many years in Pakistan working for the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ and is author of Pakistan: Eye of the Storm. He'll be here to answer your questions and comments about what has happened and the implications for Pakistan and why it matters to the rest of the world.
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