Pakistani defector was key in Bin Laden operation: officials

ISLAMABAD: Two former senior Pakistani military officials told AFP Tuesday that a defector from Pakistani intelligence assisted the US in its hunt for Osama Bin Laden but denied the two countries had officially worked together.

The officials' accounts come after the publication of a controversial new report by US journalist Seymour Hersh in which he claims to have uncovered a secret deal between the two countries that resulted in the killing of the terror chief in 2011.