Pakistan: Osama bin Laden paid Rs 50,000 bribe to build his Abbottabad house - Pakistan - IBNLive

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Pakistan: Osama bin Laden paid Rs 50,000 bribe to build his Abbottabad house 

PAKISTAN, Updated Dec 26, 2012 at 05:08pm IST

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Islamabad: Even the world's most wanted terrorist could not escape the bribery dragnet. Osama bin Laden's safe-house in Pakistan's garrison city Abbottabad was built after paying a bribe of Rs 50,000 to a revenue official, a media report on Wednesday said. The bribe was paid to the 'patwari' so that bin Laden could construct the compound with a three-storey building, a 14-foot boundary wall and an iron fence, the Urdu daily Jang said in a report.

Details of the bribe emerged after Pakistani officials translated a diary that was purportedly kept by bin Laden. Bin Laden, 54, was killed by US commandos during a raid on the compound, located a short distance from the Pakistan Military Academy, on May 2, 2011.

The compound was demolished by the Pakistan Army earlier in 2012. Officials found the diary along with 137,000 documents in the compound. Bin Laden used to write in the diary every day, the report said.

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Details of the bribe emerged after Pakistani officials translated a diary that was purportedly kept by Osama bin Laden.

The al-Qaeda chief reportedly described in the diary how he had to bribe revenue officials for constructing his compound. The patwari, who was later arrested by Pakistani security agencies, was completely ignorant about the identity of bin Laden when he took the bribe. The diary reportedly revealed that bin Laden was well aware of the practice of revenue officials seeking bribes and even gave his permission for paying off the patwari.

A judicial commission that investigated bin Laden's presence in Pakistan and the US raid has pointed out "weaknesses" in state institutions in its report and "delineated the poor performance" of these organisations, the Jang reported. The commission's report is yet to be presented to the government and officials have not said whether it will be made public.

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Another suspect arrested in Samjhauta Express blast case

December 17, 2012 20:56 IST

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In the second arrest in as many days in the Samjhauta Express blast case, Dhan Singh, a prime suspect, was on Monday arrested by the National Investigation Agency from Madhya Pradesh [ Images ].

 

The arrest came even as the NIA told a Panchkula court that Rajender Chaudhary alias Pehalwan, who allegedly planted a bomb in the Pakistan-bound Samjhauta Express in 2007, played a key role in the entire operation.

Pehalwan, in his mid-30s, was arrested by the National Investigation Agency on Saturday night from Nagda, 50 km from Ujjain, where he was living under an assumed name.

Chaudhary has been sent to 12-day custody of the NIA by the court in Panchkula, near Chandigarh, which is hearing the matter.

Singh, who was arrested from Chitrakoot following intelligence inputs, is also suspected to be involved in the 2008 Malegaon blasts [ Images ] case, sources said in New Delhi [ Images ].

Singh, who is one of the alleged conspirators in the Samjhauta case, was known as 'Swamiji' in Chitrakoot, they said.

It is the fifth arrest in the case. The NIA has already arrested Kamal Chauhan, Aseemanand and Lokesh Sharma for their alleged involvement in the blast.

A huge explosion that ripped through Samjhauta Express near Panipat in Haryana on February 18, 2007 had led to the loss of 68 lives, including women and children.

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