Washington, May 15 (PTI) Two weeks after Osama bin Laden was killed in Abbottabad, the US government is divided over the future of its ties with Pakistan, with some officials advocating "strong reprisals" if Islamabad refuses to cooperate in the war on terror, a media report said today.
"You can't continue business as usual," the Washington Post reported quoting one of several senior administration officials, who discussed the sensitive issue. "You have to somehow convey to the Pakistanis that they've arrived at a big choice."
"People who were prepared to listen to (Pakistan's) story for a long time are no longer prepared to listen," the official said.
The discovery of the al-Qaeda chief in Abbottabad, close to Islamabad, has pushed many in the Obama administration beyond any willingness to tolerate Pakistan's ambiguous connections with extremist groups, the Post said.