Given how embarrassing it was to the Pakistani government, wouldn't the fact that they never disputed its occurrence lend great weight to the official story? Unless the theory is that the raid happened but just didn't result in killing the guy, which seems pretty weird.
At its peak in 2010, the US gave Pakistan 4.5 billion dollars in aid [1] (although in more recent years this value has decreased). That sort of money can buy a lot of cooperation.
Isn't it pretty likely that Pakistan, or more specifically the ISI, used some of that money to fund the Taliban? Sandy Gall mention this in his book "War Against the Taliban" - here is a review:
