the foreign secretary, salman bashir, is holding a news conference there. we can join him now. >> let me clarify one thing. i think the notion that pakistan-u.s. relations have nosedived, this is not quite our understanding. pakistan considers its relations with the united states as of high importance and significance. one, we have been strategic partners, and we have a process which is called the strategic process. i have recently been to washington, and the ambassador was here on monday, and we have had excellent exchange of views, discussions on all issues, both in washington, d.c., at the state department with the national security council. i think we have been able to get the trajectory reafirpped, and more importantly, agreed to work the trajectory of our cooperation in the right direction. as you know, osama bin laden is history. i have said this before. but it has not been enough. so invariably the question that has been discussed, not put to me directly, but there is a context to everything, and i think we have to see the developments of the right

in islamabad, pakistan's foreign secretary, salman bashir, played down the notion. >> the notion that relations have nosedived is not quite our understanding. pakistan considers its relations with the united states as of high importance and significance. >> president obama has also tried to diffuse tension by not releasing the last photographs of osama bin laden. they have been described as gruesome. >> there's no doubt that we killed osama bin laden. it is important for us to make sure -- very graphic photos of somebody who was shot in the head -- are not floating around as an incitement to additional violence, as a propaganda tool. that's not who we are. >> many here say they will not believe the al-qaeda leader is dead until they see proof that the world's most wanted man died here. atlet's take another look this extraordinary raid and the fallout, political and diplomatic. we are now joined from washington by the former cia officer who set up cells to track down osama bin laden. he is author of a book on osama bin laden. i must first ask you -- we heard barack obama say there's no