Pakistani army troops guard the perimeter of the walled compound where Osama bin Laden was caught and killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
"The clash of East and West will deepen if America and the rest of the world cannot respect boundaries," said Sehrish Khan of Lahore. "Pakistan is a nuclear state; no country should damn well feel it can carry out a military operation in one of its cities."Some Pakistanis have criticized the Pakistani army and the government for the raid on the compound of the al-Qaeda leader, who was shot dead early Monday by U.S. Navy SEALs. Many Pakistanis have said they are angry over the violation of the country's sovereignty and doubt government claims that it was not aware of the raid.
"There shall not be any doubt that any repetition of such an act will have disastrous consequences," Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir said.
Bashir declined to say whether the American raid was illegal and said relations between Pakistan and the United States remained on course.
In protesting the raid, Pakistan's army called for cuts in the number of U.S. military personnel inside the country. The statement was the first since Monday's raid. The army admitted intelligence "shortcomings" in not finding bin Laden, who was living in Abbottabad, about a two-hour drive from the capital, Islamabad.
Pakistan's army chief of staff, Gen. Ashfaq Kayani, told his colleagues that a decision had been made to reduce the number of U.S. military personnel to the "minimum essential" levels. The statement gave no details.
The United States has about 275 declared military personnel in Pakistan at any one time, and some of them help train the Pakistani army.
U.S. officials were not immediately available for comment.
The Pakistani army also warned that it would review its military and intelligence cooperation with Washington if the United States carries out similar raids.
The army said the Inter-Services Intelligence agency had given initial information to the CIA about bin Laden, but claimed the "CIA did not share further development of intelligence on the case with the ISI, contrary to the existing practice between the two services."
"It is not always an easy relationship," U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday in Rome. "But on the other hand, it is a productive one for both of our countries, and we are going to continue to cooperate between our governments, our militaries, our law enforcement agencies."
Khan and other Pakistanis said they are pleased that bin Laden was killed, but the operation should have been done with Pakistan's cooperation.
"Intelligence sharing would have remained a better solution," Khan said.
Contributing: The Associated Press
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