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US Navy SEALs were able to sneak into Pakistan covertly to kill Osama bin Laden because of advanced American stealth technology and the Pakistani military8217;s obsession with India. The leaked report of the Abbottabad Commission said India remained the focus of Pakistan8217;s military 8220;despite a growing American threat including actual border raids,drone strikes,special operations,the spread of a hostile spy network8221; among others.
8220;Given the negative developments in the US-Pakistan relations in recent years,there was no basis to limit defence planning to only one front in the east with India,while ignoring the border and airspace in the West,8221; it said. It noted that apart from tensions with the US,there were also differences with Afghanistan and a developing strategic relationship between Afghanistan and India on one hand and between India and the US on the other.
8220;All this should have been taken into consideration instead of leaving the western borders exposed to the increasingly 8216;kinetic8217; and threatening policies of the US which were directed against Pakistan,8221; the report said. It said that there seemed to be a 8220;defeatist element8221; in the defence planning of the Pakistan Air Force,especially in the acceptance of the fact that it was 8220;not structured and equipped to fight a two-front war8221;. It also noted that Defence Policy provided the framework and guidance for the formulation of the Joint Strategic Directive JSD which was the 8220;Bible for the armed forces8221;.
8220;The last JSD was issued in 2007 and specifically stated. 8220;India has been and will continue to be the main military threat to Pakistan,8221; the report noted. The Pakistani Deputy Chief of Air Staff said none of the government departments,civil or military,had ever declared the US or Afghanistan to be a direct threat to Pakistan.
