Pakistan's government said Wednesday it was confident that fugitives Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar were not in the country, and it would not allow U.S. troops to look for them here. Interior Minister Moinuddin Haider told Reuters in an interview that Pakistan had good control of its western border with Afghanistan and good cooperation with the semi-autonomous tribesman living there. As a result, neither Saudi-born dissident bin Laden nor Mullah Omar could have found refuge in Pakistan, he said, rebutting suggestions U.S. troops might need to cross into Pakistan to look for them or their supporters.
"Nope. Not here. We'll let you know if we see them, though." |