Pakistan President Zardari said that Pakistani intelligence believes Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden is dead but acknowledged they had no evidence.
“The Americans tell me they don’t know, and they are much more equipped than us to trace him. And our own intelligence services obviously think that he does not exist any more, that he is dead,” Mr Zardari told reporters here. “But there is no evidence, you cannot take that as a fact. We are between facts and fiction,” he said.
Mr Zardari was responding to reports that the pro Taliban in the troubled Swat Valley have said they would welcome bin Laden if he wants to visit the former Pakistani hill resort which is now in the hands of militants.
“The question is whether he is alive or dead. There is no trace of him,” the President said.
Mr Zardari further said that the nuclear assets of the country have been in safe hands and under extraordinary security and that there was no danger of the Taliban getting hold of its nuclear arsenal. “I want to assure the world that the nuclear capability of Pakistan is under safe hands,” he said.
“The Americans tell me they don’t know, and they are much more equipped than us to trace him. And our own intelligence services obviously think that he does not exist any more, that he is dead,” Mr Zardari told reporters here. “But there is no evidence, you cannot take that as a fact. We are between facts and fiction,” he said.
Mr Zardari was responding to reports that the pro Taliban in the troubled Swat Valley have said they would welcome bin Laden if he wants to visit the former Pakistani hill resort which is now in the hands of militants.
“The question is whether he is alive or dead. There is no trace of him,” the President said.
Mr Zardari further said that the nuclear assets of the country have been in safe hands and under extraordinary security and that there was no danger of the Taliban getting hold of its nuclear arsenal. “I want to assure the world that the nuclear capability of Pakistan is under safe hands,” he said.
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