Pakistan says it has no information

Published September 24, 2006

ISLAMABAD, Sept 23: Pakistan has received no information from any foreign government that would corroborate a French newspaper report on Saturday that Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden died of typhoid in Pakistan, a senior government official said.

“No government has shared any such information with us so far, which is the normal thing to do under such circumstances,” the official, who has close knowledge of intelligence matters, told Reuters on condition of anonymity.

A senior official in the interior ministry also said: “We have no information about Osama’s death.”—Reuters

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