PARIS — As Pakistan faced a growing chorus of questions about its avowed ignorance of Osama bin Laden’s presence on its soil, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani sought to shift the focus of blame on Wednesday, saying the intelligence failure was made by “the whole world, not Pakistan alone.”

The maneuvering came three days after President Obama announced that Bin Laden had been killed in an American commando raid on a compound in Abbottabad, just 35 miles from the Pakistani capital — an event that prompted Western leaders, including senior officials in France and Britain, to say Pakistan had to explain why it said it had not been aware of the presence of the leader of Al Qaeda.

Shortly before he met with the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, on Wednesday during a long-scheduled visit here, Mr. Gilani was asked the same question by reporters and said, “There is an intelligence failure of the whole world, not just Pakistan alone.”

He said Pakistan shared intelligence “with the rest of the world, including the United States,” so if there were what he called lapses in Pakistan “that means lapses from the whole world.”