One fails to understand the rationale of these arrests. Was Osama not an enemy of humanity? Were the individuals helping to track him down not to be protected and hence, not at the very least, arrested? The Pakistanis have goofed, yet again! How long is the world going to keep trusting the atrociously appalling Pakistanis?

This appears to be a direct consequence of the ISI and the Pakistan army feeling let down by the US capturing Osama all by itself. Beyond Pakistan's complaining and protesting, history will prove that not trusting Pakistani authorities was perhaps the best decision Washington could have made.

Despite several efforts to rebuild confidence from the US after the May 01, 2011 capture of bin Laden, Pakistan has continued to use back door methods to stab Washington in the back.

Pakistan's attitude and growing disregard for demands of time is making the rest of the world nervous. This is the country which the entire world looks up to for cooperation with respect to the war against terrorism. And here we are today learning that it is catching hold of folks who assisted in capturing the worst possible terrorist the world has ever seen!

Someone, somewhere in the Pakistani establishments needs to come up with an explanation. Someone needs to make an effort to put an end to this insanity and bloody lies originating from Islamabad. It is indeed an impossible adventure to think through this terribly contradictory situation!

Isn't the ISI supposed to be working with the CIA on the war on terror? Maybe ISI should arrest itself for being CIA informants.

The problem lies in the fact that sane people try to understand why and what fors. With Pakistan all one needs to do is see whether the steps they are taking are in their own interest or in the interests of humanity. As soon as get the answer stop there and dont go any further.

"As Pakistan's powerful Inter-Service Intelligence directorate (ISI) was able to uncover and arrest the alleged C.I.A. informants very soon after the killing, one might wonder what they could do if they put as much energy into locating some of the world's other most wanted people believed to be hiding out in the country."

As much as anything, this should prove finally how unreliable and duplicitous Pakistan has been - an ally only insofar as it gets them US money and military aid to bolster the regime in its long war against India. Pakistan has gotten much - given very little. Most of the parties listed in the above article could be arrested in 24 hours if it was in Pakistan's interest to do so. Most of these parties are doubtless little more than agents of Pakistan. And bin Laden - they still cannot offer any cogent answer for why he was allowed to live virtually in the open, for almost six years, in a major city quite close to their principal military academy. And yet our Congress and the Obama administration continue to treat them like valued allies. The Pakistanis have always looked out for their own interests and there reaction to the killing of bin Laden shows that they wanted to protect him so the US would continue to fork over the money for their 'assistance' in the WOT.

Time to pull the plug and let them twist in the wind as Afghanistan goes back to the Taliban. Leave the Pakistani state to deal with a growing Islamic insurgency on their Northwest frontier that threatens to engulf their political institutions and their secular society. There is nothing in Afghanistan but a couple of dozen al Qaeda operatives and a growing Taliban force that reminds me of the Viet Cong 50 years ago - and we have as much chance of defeating the Taliban in a protracted war as we did that earlier foe.

Why would any country not arrest citizens who had been passing information to the spy agency of a foreign power? That some people find this strange is bizarre.

This is right up there with the Americans who think US citizens caught passing classified information to Israel should not be prosecuted because it was Israel rather than, say, Iran.

Why the Pakistani's failed to notice Osama living in their midst is a separate question. The money the elites have been happy to take is a bribe so they will aid the US in its war against the wishes and instincts of its own people. Polling data clearly shows that the Pakistani people think the number one threat to Pakistan is not AQ, the Taliban or even the old enemy India it is the US of A. They are perfectly correct in this assessment, their governments support for the US GWOT is ripping the country apart.

Mr Robert Zeliger and dot heads with western names ,

Why and how should Pakistan arrest these figures?

They are still useful for US and must be enjoying in Washington or Kabul.

Few of them are likely to lose their usefulness very soon.

And you will see May 2 like operation, getting them killed and submerging their bodies in the ocean, though will have no weapons to resist BRAVE American commandos, so that no one knows from where they came?

So no need to waste your energy to suggest such gibberish, Mr Zeliger.

WE UST SAY,

Long live PAXAMERICANA -

AMERICA HAS WON ALL THE WARS,,,,,,,,,,BUT IN MEDIA