ISLAMABAD,
Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- Pakistan's spokesperson said on Monday that the al-Qaeda
leadership was in Afghanistan and the country has no information on the
whereabouts of Mullah Omar or Osama bin Laden.
At the weekly briefing, Pakistani Foreign Office
spokesperson Tasnim Aslam dismissed the reports about the presence of Taliban
leadership in Pakistan, according to the official APP news agency.
"Taliban are in Afghanistan and the insurgency is
deep inside Afghanistan, far away from Pakistan's borders," Aslam said.
She also rejected the reports that a agreement
between the tribal and the local authorities in Pakistan was on the behest of
the fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Umar.
"It is absolutely baseless," she said, adding that
the deal particularly bound the tribal from traveling across the border into
Afghanistan for acts of terror.
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf during his visit
to Afghanistan held detailed discussions with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on
this issue, She said.
Referring to whereabouts of Osama bin Laden, the
spokesperson said, "we have no information about his coordinates, we have no
information whether he is dead or alive."
She said that Pakistan would like to see peace and
stability in Afghanistan and hoped the pace of reconstruction would pick up,
bringing prosperity to the Afghans. Enditem
