The larger point is when the US detected the whereabouts, whether they chose to cooperate with a "Major non nato ally" or didn't (w.r.t "unwittingly" hosting the guy).
It more than anything highlighted what the "Major non nato ally" stuff really involved in the end (basic logistics and airspace use and little to no trust on anything else).
That tells you all you need to know about the ABC-group ecosystem reality over there (regarding perception from a country that experienced a tiny fraction of terror consequences that India did from same entity....but ample more force and pressure to exercise internally).
There is little to no delineation and lot of mish-mash in all the circuitry over there.
@VCheng