| Osama Bin Laden is not hiding in Pakistan, Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad has said, describing reports in the western press that the Al Qaeda chief was in the tribal areas as based on assumption. "Fortunately or unfortunately, high profile Al Qaeda leaders like Abu Zubaida and Khalid Sheikh Muhammad have been arrested in Pakistan in the last couple of years, after which the western media started assuming that Bin Laden was also hiding in Pakistan," the minister said while speaking at an Iftar dinner for editors and columnists on Wednesday. He said the latest Bin Laden videotape was delivered to the Al Jazeera office in Rawalpindi, which fuelled these assumptions. |
