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Pakistan's foreign minister has ruled out allowing military personnel from the United States, or any other foreign country, in Pakistan to hunt for Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda.

Mahmoud Qureshi said on Saturday that the country's new government had not permitted any such operation in the regions bordering Afghanistan and never would.

Bin Laden is widely believed to be hiding somewhere in the Afghan-Pakistan border region.

"Our government's policy is that our troops, paramilitary forces and our regular forces are deployed in sufficient numbers. They are capable of taking action there. And any foreign intrusion would be counter-productive," Qureshi told the Associated Press news agency.

"People will not accept it. Questions of sovereignty come in."

Qureshi acknowledged that "there are some infiltrations" still occurring, but he said no covert US military operations to catch al-Qaeda figures, Taliban members or any other suspected fighters, had been staged.

"There are none," he said.

The new Pakistani government's pursuit of peace deals with tribal groups in the region has been highly criticised in Washington.
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9 responses // Pakistan blocks US bin Laden hunt

  • We've given Pakistan billions of dollars and arms. This is completely insane and shows their true loyalties if you ask me. They'd hate it if I were in charge.
    shadowtrekker
  • We're actually still looking for Bin Laden?
    That alone is news to me.
    BetterWatching
  • Bin Laden is long dead. Hunting for Bin Laden is just a murderous wild goose chase.

    In fact, the probable reason for Benazir Bhutto's murder is that she knew too much, i.e. she knew not only that Bin Laden was killed in December 2001, she even named his killer. She certainly knew a great deal more that would be more than embarrassing for the UK and the USA and several other countries, and it was therefore imperative for the powers that be (and "that be" on the Dark Side) to prevent at all costs Benazir Bhutto from becoming Pakistan's Prime Minister again.
    Vierotchka
  • http://existentialistcowboy.blogspot.com/2008/01/fox-ne...
    Fox News/New York Times: "Bin Laden is Dead"
    Vierotchka
  • I wouldn't want another countries troops in my country either. Imagine if we let troops come here to look for someone. Would American citizens like that?
    shroomfairy
  • shroomfairy - it's different than just having our troops in another land, they've accepted billions of dollars from us for the war on terror and they're turning up nothing.
    shadowtrekker
  • It is possible that Osama is dead or gone. I was trying to think of it as a citizen of that country.
    shroomfairy
    1 response to this
  • sigh...will we ever learn??

    stupid f'ing neo-cons'
    jh64487

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