Yes he could have said that.There is no law which gives the permission of conducting ops in sovereign country without its permission even if its conducted to eliminate a most wanted terrorist.
US is supposed to care about Pakistani law?
Contrary to the popular belief, Pakistani military establishment was never comfortable with the prospect of US military forces conducting attacks inside Pakistani territory. At maximum, [some] drone strikes were carried out with approval from Pakistani military establishment in select few regions that were notorious for militant activity.
Barack Obama adopted an aggressive counter-terrorism policy vis-a-vis Pakistan because US intelligence agencies asserted that Pakistani territory had become a safe-haven for terrorists and some Pakistani were complicit in this. I am not asserting that Pakistani military establishment was guilty of these developments; Pakistani intelligence agencies had been conducted a nation-wide crackdown against terrorists and such operations commenced in Abbottabad [2 years] before Operation Neptune Spear because their was an influx of newcomers in Abbottabad and similar areas.
But the question is did we shoot any thing??And btw COAS ordered this 2 hours after the americans had left Pakistan.
I think Pakistan knew about this op completely but didnt want to do this op on its own so that it may not piss off Al qaida and afghan talibans......Just my 2 paisas.
No, PAF didn't manage to shoot down any intruding aircraft. This was partly due to timing-factor.
COAS gave that order as soon as he became aware of the ground realities of the events.
Contrary to the popular belief (again), Pakistani military establishment did not suspect that US leadership possesses the political will to approve a military operation as ambitious as Operation Neptune Spear inside Pakistani territory. Pakistani military establishment was actually off-guard by this event because it dispelled the official narrative that Pakistan and US were on the same page about the matters related to War on Terror and put Pakistani military establishment in an embarrassing situation.
Pakistani security apparatus would have come taken action [on its own] if it had been aware of presence of Osama Bin Laden in Abbottabad. Just a few months back, ISI nabbed another high-profile terrorist Umar Patek from the same region and raided another compound that was suspected to be harboring Abu Faraj Al-Libbi.
Facts are sometimes painful, my friend.