ISLAMABAD, May 13: Foreign Office Spokesperson Tasnim Aslam said on Saturday that no body had any information about the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden and it was also not known whether he was alive or dead.

If Afghan authorities hade any information, they should share them with the government of Pakistan, the spokesperson told a private television channel.

She denied the statement of Afghan foreign minister in which he had said that Osama was in Pakistan.

She said that time and again some media statements came from Afghanistan side which was a regrettable phenomenon.

Pakistan, she said, was playing front line role in the war against terror, adding the country had suffered huge number of casualties.

The spokesperson said media statements would not benefit anyone.

Afghanistan’s foreign minister was quoted as saying on Saturday that Osama bin Laden was likely to be living in Pakistan, but Islamabad’s efforts to catch him had so far been “half-hearted”.

“According to all that we know, he is actually living in Pakistan, close to the Afghan border,” Afghan Foreign Minister Rangeen Dadfar Spanta was quoted as telling Germany’s Bild am Sonntag in a preview of an interview being published on Sunday.

“Our neighbour could surely catch him and put him on trial,” he added, according to the newspaper.”But attempts to do this have to our knowledge always been half-hearted.”—APP/AP