PAKISTAN’S prime minister has dismissed claims the country’s security forces either helped Osama bin Laden to hide or were incompetent in tracking him down.

Yousuf Raza Gilani defended his country in an address to parliament, a week after the US raid in the Pakistani garrison city of Abbottabad killed the al Qaida leader.

He also said bin Laden’s killing was “justice done”.

Bin Laden’s location raised suspicions that he had help from some Pakistani authorities, possibly elements of the powerful army and intelligence services.

Mr Gilani said the army will investigate how bin Laden hid for years on his country’s soil without being detected.

He also warned Washington that future unilateral strikes inside the nation’s borders could be met with “full force”, but said Pakistan’s key relationship with the USA remained strong.

He said: “It is disingenuous for anyone to blame Pakistan or state institutions of Pakistan, including the ISI and the armed forces, for being in cahoots with al Qaida.

“Elimination of Osama bin Laden, who launched waves after waves of terrorists attacks against innocent Pakistanis, is indeed justice done.”

He agreed the failure to find bin Laden was a mistake but insisted it was not Pakistan’s alone but of all the intelligence agencies of the world.

US officials have said they see no evidence that anyone in the upper echelons of Pakistan’s military and intelligence establishment was complicit in hiding bin Laden. But they still have serious questions about how he was able to hole up for up to six years.

Kirklees Faith Network has spoken out following the death of Osama bin Laden.

The Network says the extremist leader and his political movement had always traced their origins back to the extremist and violent 18th century Wahabi occult which ravaged Arabia more than 300 years ago.

A statement said: “These people have hijacked religion for their own political agenda just like Europe’s far-right. Bin Laden and his Al-Qaeda have a purely political philosophy that has tried its best to hijack the Islamic faith.

“The Kirklees Faith Network hopes things will calm down on a global level after bin Laden’s death. But the harsh reality is these violent extremists are part of a long chain that is not easy to break.”