Pakistan has launched a manhunt of its own inside Afghanistan for Osama bin Laden and other leaders of his al-Qaida terrorist network, sending Pakistani intelligence operatives across the border in hopes of locating the Saudi-born fugitive, according to Pakistani and Western sources, the Washington Post reports in its Tuesday edition. Senior Pakistani intelligence officials said the intense search for bin Laden and his close associates was ordered after they received credible reports that bin Laden might try to flee to Pakistan along the country's porous 1,400-mile border with Afghanistan.
The idea is to locate bin Laden, then share the information with the U.S. and allow the U.S. military to take the lead in capturing or killing him, the sources said, according to the Post. Bureau Report