Pakistan's army ordered a reduction in U.S. military personnel operating inside the country on Thursday in apparent protest at a unilateral American commando raid that killed Osama bin Laden. 
 
 A Pakistani police officer stands guard at a gate of the compound where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was caught and killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan Thursday, May 5, 2011. The residents of Abbottabad... (Associated Press) 
 
 Pakistan's Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir addresses a news conference with spokesperson Tehmina Janjua, left. at the Foreign Office in Islamabad, Pakistan on Thursday, May 5, 2011. Pakistan warned America... (Associated Press) 
 
 A Pakistani police officer, right, stands guards as people lean on the wall of the house where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was caught and killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan, Thursday, May 5, 2011. The... (Associated Press) 
 
 Pakistani men stand looking at the house where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was caught and killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan, Thursday, May 5, 2011. The residents of Abbottabad were still confused and... (Associated Press) 
 
 The army has been heavily criticized at home for allowing the country's sovereignty to be violated during Monday's operation in a busy garrison town not far from the capital, Islamabad. It is also facing international charges it may have been harboring the al-Qaida chief, given his location. 
 
 The army statement, the first since the raid, appeared aimed at countering both charges. 
 
 It said a decision had been made to reduce the number of U.S. military personnel to the "minimum essential" levels, but gave no more details and a spokesman declined to elaborate. U.S. officials were not immediately available for comment. 
 
 The U.S. has around 275 declared U.S. military personnel in Pakistan at any one time, some of them helping train the Pakistan army. 
 
 The Pakistani army also warned that it would review its military and intelligence cooperation with Washington if the United States carries out any more similar raids. Earlier, the government had warned of "disastrous consequences" if the U.S. staged a similar attack on its territory. 
 
 But in an apparent nod to international criticism, the army admitted to "shortcomings in developing intelligence on the presence" of bin Laden in Pakistan. 
 
 Still, it said its Inter-Services Intelligence agency had given initial information to the CIA about bin Laden, but claimed the "CIA did not share further development of intelligence on the case with the ISI, contrary to the existing practice between the two services." 
 
 Ties between American and Pakistan were already strained before Monday's raid because of American allegations it was failing to crackdown on Afghan Taliban factions sheltering on its soil and Pakistan anger over U.S. drone strikes on its soil. ||||| Pakistani intelligence agents today are interrogating three women -- all wives of Osama bin Laden -- who were captured during the U.S.-led raid on Sunday. 
 
 The wives, including the youngest -- 29-year-old Yemeni Amal Ahmed Abdul Fatah -- were all living with bin Laden inside the compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. 
 
 According to one of the women, bin Laden confined himself to two rooms in the house, including the bedroom where he was killed. He never left those rooms, she claims, for the five years he was hiding there. 
 
 "He used two rooms on one of the floors," Asad Munir, a former ISI commander, told ABC News. "He never went anywhere." 
 
 The three wives are in custody in Islamabad, and are facing firm but nonviolent questioning, a former intelligence official said. 
 
 "We give them a questionnaire, with 20 questions," Munir said. "We change the order of questions every three or four days." 
 
 Investigators then look for any differences in the answers. 
 
 "For telling lies you have to have very good memory," Munir said. "There's a way to find out. No one will tell you the first day the correct answer." 
 
 U.S. officials have requested but have been denied access to the wives so far. 
 
 Officials also have in custody bin Laden's 13-year-old daughter, who saw her father killed "in front of her eyes," a senior Pakistani security official told ABC News in an exclusive interview Wednesday. 
 
 They are also questioning six or seven other children who were captured in the raid. 
 
 Watch "KILL SHOT: THE STORY BEHIND BIN LADEN'S DEATH," a special "20/20" Friday at 10 p.m. ET. 
 
 Pakistani officials said they gave the CIA intelligence that eventually helped lead it to bin Laden's compound. It was a phone call the agency intercepted from Pakistan to Saudi Arabia in which the caller used keywords that raised suspicions he was discussing bin Laden. 
 
 When the caller used the phone again in 2009, the Pakistanis say they tracked his signal and briefly picked him up, and then they shared the phone's SIM card with U.S. officials. The man using the phone was bin Laden's trusted courier, who eventually led U.S. intelligence officials inadvertently to the compound. 
 
 The reports come as relations between the United States and Pakistan grow increasingly tense. The U.S. intelligence community kept Pakistani officials in the dark until after the top-secret mission to hunt down bin Laden was finished, worried that the information could leak. 
 
 The Pakistani army has suffered a major blow to its credibility -- at home for its inability to detect U.S. planes in its airspace through the 40-minute mission, and abroad for not finding bin Laden, who was hiding only steps away from one of the country's top military academies. 
 
 In his first public statement since the operation, Pakistan's army chief Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani today warned that "violating the sovereignty of Pakistan will warrant a review on the level of military/intelligence cooperation with the United States." 
 
 He also said that U.S. military personnel in Pakistan would be reduced to the "minimum essential." 
 
 There are currently about 100 U.S. troops in Pakistan. 
 
 This is not the first time Pakistan has threatened to cut U.S. forces on the ground. A report published a month ago, following the case of CIA contractor Raymond Davis who allegedly shot and killed two Pakistani men, stated that Pakistanis wanted to cut the U.S. trainer force by 30 percent.
– Pakistan's army today admitted to "shortcomings in developing intelligence on the presence" of Osama bin Laden, then promptly ordered a reduction in US military in the country to "minimum essential" levels. The reduction is apparently meant to protest the independent US raid on bin Laden's compound, which has been criticized in Pakistan as violating that country's sovereignty, the AP reports. Pakistan earlier warned of "disastrous consequences" if the US carries out other, similar raids in the future. Despite the admitted shortcomings, Pakistan's army says the country's Inter-Services Intelligence agency gave initial information to the CIA. In its statement, the first since the raid, the army threatened that if the US carries out more raids like Sunday's, it will review its cooperation with Washington. The Washington Post notes that Pakistan's foreign minister also appeared to question whether the US raid was legal, citing UN Security Council resolutions and suggesting the raid may have breached international law.