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Pakistan's top military spy agency has arrested five Pakistani informants who assisted the CIA ahead of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.
The arrests of the men, including a Pakistani Army major said to have copied the license plate of cars that drove up to bin Laden's compound deep in Pakistan, comes amid strained ties between Washington and Islamabad in the wake of the US Navy Seals raid last month.
A Pakistani security official said Pakistan's Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency had no immediate comment on the report.
Central Intelligence Agency Director Leon Panetta raised the fate of the CIA informants during talks with Pakistani military and intelligence officers in Pakistan last week, US officials told the Times.
At a closed briefing last week, CIA Deputy Director rated Pakistan's counterterrorism cooperation with the United States as three out of 10, officials told the newspaper.
The tension between the two countries comes as US President Barack Obama seeks to bring an end to the war in Pakistan's neighbor Afghanistan.
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