Pak blocks Al-Jazeera website after Osama report leak

July 09, 2013 21:11

Pakistan today blocked the website of Al-Jazeera after it leaked a controversial report about Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's decade-long stay in the country before he was killed by United States special forces at his Abbottabad hideout.

The Qatar-based broadcaster uploaded yesterday a report by Pakistani investigators detailing official failure to check bin Laden's free movement and unhindered stay at several places before killed in secret US raid in garrison town of Abbotabad in 2010.

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