KABUL: Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden is no longer in Afghanistan, the country's top police official said Thursday, citing the large number of US and NATO forces providing security and battling insurgents. "He is not in Afghanistan," Interior Minister Ali Ahmad Jalali told reporters. "It isn't possible for him to be here because of all the international forces here. It is strongly suspected that he is in the tribal area," Jalali said, referring to a region of Pakistan along the Afghan border.