Pak rejects CIA’s claim over Bin Laden’s presence inside its territory

October 6th, 2009 LAHORE - Former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf has said that he has no idea where the Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden is hiding. Musharraf, who is currently on a lecture tour of the US, replying to a question that whether he believed Laden was hiding in the rough terrains of Pakistan's lawless tribal region, said: "Your guess is as good or as bad as mine.

September 24th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - : Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik has once again rejected reports regarding the presence of private US security firm Blackwater inside the country. "Blackwater does not engage in any activity in Pakistan.

September 21st, 2009 MELBOURNE - Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) have returned to the skies of a Northern Territory hotspot, where such sightings have also been reported earlier. Workers and tourists at the Wycliffe Well Holiday Park claim to have seen strange lights in the night sky.ews.com.au quoted park employee Julie Zanker as having told Northern Territory News: "We were looking at the sky and there was a white light with red and blue flashing lights around it.

September 20th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) Director Leon Panetta has said that the agency's operation against Al-Qaeda and other extremist groups in Pakistan has been 'very successful'. Panetta said the CIA was establishing more bases in Afghanistan as the Taliban and Al-Qaeda were constantly expanding their network, and added that the influence of these outfits was also on the rise.

September 15th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Syed Munawar Hasan has blamed the US presence for all the troubles facing the region currently. Hasan said the US presence in the region is the root cause of militancy and all other problems.

September 12th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that Islamabad is actually not worried about India's involvement in Afghanistan, but such involvement should not go against Pakistan's interests. Qureshi said India's role in Afghanistan should not be exaggerated, but added that New Delhi should also notice that its increased Afghan involvement does not prove counter productive for Pakistan.

September 11th, 2009 ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI - Pakistan Friday rejected the Indian protest over the Gilgit-Baltistan empowerment and self-governance order, saying New Delhi had no locus standi in the matter. The rejection came on the day two protest notes were handed over to the Pakistani high commission in New Delhi by the Indian external affairs ministry on Gilgit-Baltistan and the construction of the 7,000 MW Bunji Dam in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, Online news agency reported.

August 11th, 2009 MELBOURNE - A Northern Territory local has laid claims to spotting UFOs flying in the sky, and has even posted a video of the objects as evidence. According to the Northern Territory News, Alan Ferguson captured footage of a small black object flashing above his home in Acacia Hills, south of Darwin two weeks ago, and has posted the video on his website UFO Territory.

August 11th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The United States has rejected theTaliban's claim of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Baitullah Mehsud being alive. US National Security Adviser General James Jones said there is sufficient evidence and proof that Mehsud has been killed.

July 27th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari's spokesman Farhatullah Babar has rejected former President Pervez Musharraf's claim that Benazir Bhutto wanted him to continue as the head of the state if she had been elected Prime Minister. Babar described the retired general's statement as "wishful thinking of a disgraced dictator." In a rejoinder to the former president's interview with an Indian channel, Babar said Musharraf had been eased out of the Presidency in full public view and was now seeking a measure of public support to "escape the fate that befalls all dictators." Babar said that Musharraf's assertion had confirmed Bhutto's prediction, made during an interview in the last months of her life that a day will come when Musharraf will beg for my pictures to sustain himself.

July 23rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - The son of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has been killed by a US missile attack in Pakistan, US National Public Radio has reported. Saad bin Laden was believed killed in a missile strike from a US drone earlier this year, intelligence officials told the broadcaster Wednesday.

July 23rd, 2009 SLAMABAD - Al-Qaeda chief Osama-bin-Laden's son Saad-bin-Laden has reportedly been killed in a drone attack in Pakistan's insurgency hit Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). According to a US radio report, Saad, Laden's third son, was killed in a missile hit early this year.

July 10th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Al Qaeda chief Osama bin laden's son, Omar, has described his father as an evil man in his new memoir. According to the New York Daily News, Omar says that he first realized the depth of his father's evil when his beloved dogs were taken away and gassed in a chemical warfare experiment.

June 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - The US Special Operations Forces have standing orders to enter Pakistan if they find any 'conclusive' evidence about the presence of the 'big three', which includes, Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri and Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar. According to a Washington Post report, the US Special Operation Forces have already established ground teams on the Pak-Afghanistan border, and would move into Pakistan if they receive any substantial information about the presence of any of the 'big three' in a particular area.

May 14th, 2009 PESHAWAR - Pakistan's North West Frontier Province Minister for Information, Iftikhar Hussain, on Thursday said normalcy has restored in different parts of Buner up to Dagar area where, he added, the security forces have regained complete control. The News quoted him as saying that one million people have become confined to Swat due to the curfew in the valley.