US 'alerted over compound in 2009'

Pakistan alerted the US to suspicions about Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad as far back as 2009, the country’s Foreign Secretary revealed today.

Salman Bashir said American concerns over whether it could trust Pakistan’s security and intelligence services were “misplaced” and insisted it had extended “every co-operation” to the US and played a “pivotal role” in the fight against terror.