ISLAMABAD: The management of the Marriott Hotel on Monday denied an official statement that top Pakistani leaders were due to have dinner at the hotel but cancelled before a devastating suicide bombing.

Interior ministry chief Rehman Malik earlier told reporters that Pakistan's president and prime minister were to have had dinner at the Marriott on Saturday, when it was bombed, but the venue was changed at the last minute.

'There was no reservation from the government side,' Jamil Khawar, spokesman for hotel owner Sadruddin Hashwani, told AFP.

'I have checked from the management and the hotel administration, no booking had been made for an official dinner on that day,' he said.

A suicide bomber rammed a truck packed with over half a tonne of explosives into the outer security gates of the luxury hotel Saturday night, killing at least 60 people and wounding more than 260.

Malik said 'the national assembly speaker had arranged a dinner for the entire leadership, for the president, prime minister and armed services chiefs at the Marriott that day.''The president and the prime minister changed the venue to the prime minister's house. The function was not held at the Marriott, thus the whole leadership was saved,' Malik added.