ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- Pakistan says there is no evidence that Osama Bin Laden is living in a secure hideout within its borders.
Both the Foreign Ministry and a military spokesman, Major Gen. Shaukat Sultan, denied claims by John Negroponte, in his last report to Congress as U.S. intelligence chief, The Independent reported.
"We have no such information nor has any such thing been communicated to us by any U.S. authority," Sultan said.
In his report, Negroponte said al Qaida is the terrorist group that poses the biggest threat to the United States.
"They are cultivating stronger operational connections and relationships that radiate outward from their leaders' secure hide-out in Pakistan to affiliates throughout the Middle East, north Africa and Europe," he said.
Leaders of the Taliban, the former Afghanistan governing group that gave bin Laden refuge, are believed to be living in Quetta in the tribal area of Pakistan near the border, the newspaper said.
