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'Struggle goes on'
This view is shared by many Pakistanis - especially the religious hardliners.
"Sheikh Osama Bin Laden is a hero of Islam and symbol of our struggle against the West," says Maulana Asmatullah, a Jamiat-e-Ulema-e-Islam (JUI) MP, said to have close links to the Taliban leadership.
The JUI is one of the few parties to come out on the streets so far - holding several demonstrations in Quetta against the killing of Bin Laden.
In Karachi a small prayer ceremony was organised on Tuesday by Jamaat-ud-Dawa, an Islamic charity accused of links to militant groups.
Public expressions of grief have been small scale
Several hundred of the group's members attended the gathering in the east of the city, many openly weeping as the last rites were conducted. The public were invited, but few turned up.
Maulana Asmatullah wants the government to explain how the attack took place without its consent.
"I would also like to add that if Sheikh Osama is indeed dead - then there is no more rationale for the US to be in this region," he told the BBC. "They wanted to kill him, and now he's dead they should leave immediately."
Many ordinary citizens believe that too.
"America has killed the man they said was responsible for all those attacks against the US. Its mission is accomplished - and it's time for them to leave us in peace," says Arsalan Mateen in Karachi.
Ahmed Nadeem, a bank executive in the city, says: "It's not just security - our economy has also been severely damaged due to the conflict. Osama is dead and they should now go."
For the militants, however, it's not the end of the story.
Mohammad Younis, a young Taliban member who has fought for four years on the fronts of Ghazni, Helmand and Kandahar, says Bin Laden was "like my father".
"I can't really describe my grief to you," he told me in southern Pakistan.
"But jihad is not and never was about one man. We mourn his loss, but the struggle will never stop.
"We will make all those responsible for his death pay - in Afghanistan and across the world.
"Let them rejoice now - soon they will feel fear again."
'Struggle goes on'
This view is shared by many Pakistanis - especially the religious hardliners.
"Sheikh Osama Bin Laden is a hero of Islam and symbol of our struggle against the West," says Maulana Asmatullah, a Jamiat-e-Ulema-e-Islam (JUI) MP, said to have close links to the Taliban leadership.
The JUI is one of the few parties to come out on the streets so far - holding several demonstrations in Quetta against the killing of Bin Laden.
In Karachi a small prayer ceremony was organised on Tuesday by Jamaat-ud-Dawa, an Islamic charity accused of links to militant groups.
Public expressions of grief have been small scale
Several hundred of the group's members attended the gathering in the east of the city, many openly weeping as the last rites were conducted. The public were invited, but few turned up.
Maulana Asmatullah wants the government to explain how the attack took place without its consent.
"I would also like to add that if Sheikh Osama is indeed dead - then there is no more rationale for the US to be in this region," he told the BBC. "They wanted to kill him, and now he's dead they should leave immediately."
Many ordinary citizens believe that too.
"America has killed the man they said was responsible for all those attacks against the US. Its mission is accomplished - and it's time for them to leave us in peace," says Arsalan Mateen in Karachi.
Ahmed Nadeem, a bank executive in the city, says: "It's not just security - our economy has also been severely damaged due to the conflict. Osama is dead and they should now go."
For the militants, however, it's not the end of the story.
Mohammad Younis, a young Taliban member who has fought for four years on the fronts of Ghazni, Helmand and Kandahar, says Bin Laden was "like my father".
"I can't really describe my grief to you," he told me in southern Pakistan.
"But jihad is not and never was about one man. We mourn his loss, but the struggle will never stop.
"We will make all those responsible for his death pay - in Afghanistan and across the world.
"Let them rejoice now - soon they will feel fear again."
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