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‘Bin Laden’s whereabouts are speculations’

WASHINGTON: The belief by intelligence organisations that Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is in a remote Pakistan border area is just a “speculation”, Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States said on Sunday, AFP reported.

Mahmoud Ali Durrani was asked on CNN about an interview President Pervez Musharraf gave to CBS television, to be broadcast later on Sunday.

CNN quoted Musharraf as saying of Bin Laden, “There is no proof whatsoever that he’s here.”

He said, “We are not particularly looking for him, but we are operating against him and Al Qaeda and militant Taliban and in the process obviously combined maybe we are looking for him also.” Durrani sought to clarify saying, “I think the president is suggesting that neither we, nor the US, has any intelligence where exactly Osama bin Laden is.”

“He may be in Afghanistan,” the ambassador said. “He may be in the border region. If we knew where he was, we would have taken him out.” Durrani noted that US and other foreign intelligence agencies believe Bin Laden to be sheltering in the tribal area along the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. But “that’s just speculation,” the envoy said.

“Believe me. If they knew or we knew we would have taken him out,” he added. agencies

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