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US may be aware about Osama's whereabouts: Qureshi | Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said the United States may be aware of Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden's present location. Interacting with media
persons in Washington, Qureshi said the US troops, engaged in a gruesome battle
in Afghanistan , are equipped with sophisticated, state of art technology and
weapons hence they may be aware about Laden's whereabouts. "US may be aware of
the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden," The News quoted Qureshi, as saying. The Obama
Administration maintains that Laden along with other top Al-Qaeda and Taliban
leaders are hiding in Pakistan 's ungoverned tribal areas along the Afghan border.
"In the FATA, the western part of Pakistan in the mountains on the Afghan border,
that is a war on terror. That's where al-Qaida lives. That's where bin Laden is.
That's where the most radicalized part of the Taliban is," US Vice President Joe
Biden, had said days ago. Biden said Al-Qaeda had reconstituted itself in the
mountain regions along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border under the Bush Administration,
which was a matter of great concern. Deputy Chief of the Mission , US Embassy,
Gerald Feierstein, recently, had said Laden was alive and has taken refuge in
Pakistan . "Osama is present in Pakistan.The command system of Taliban is based
in Quetta and they are launching their activities from the suburbs of the city,"
Feierstein said. However, Pakistan has brushed aside Feierstein statements terming
them as 'baseless speculation'. Pakistan Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit
said the US should share evidence with Islamabad regarding bin Laden's presence
in Pakistan . |
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