Pakistan and the United States have quietly resumed intelligence-sharing co-operation and are actively discussing ways to rebuild the military co-operation that was curtailed in May after US special forces killed Osama bin Laden in the northern Pakistani city of Abbottabad, high-ranking Pakistani and Western defence and security officials have told Jane's. Tangible evidence on the resumption of intelligence and possible military co-operation came on 5 May when Pakistan Army and US officials revealed the arrest of Sheikh Younis al-Mauritani, a high-level Al-Qaeda militant, outside the western Pakistani city of Quetta. Significantly, both sides confirmed that the arrest had been carried out in a joint operation by US and Pakistani intelligence services.
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