Pakistan: U.S. may talk to bin Laden wives

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 10 (UPI) -- Pakistan will let U.S. agents question Osama bin Laden's three widows, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said Tuesday.

Speaking to CNN, Malik did not say where or when Pakistan would grant access to the women, who were taken into custody after the May 2 U.S. raid that killed the terror leader.

An unnamed U.S. official familiar with the case earlier told al-Jazeera: "The Pakistanis now appear willing to grant access. Hopefully they'll carry through on the signals they are sending."

At Tuesday's White House briefing, press secretary Jay Carney said: "We obviously are very interested in getting access to the three wives … as well as the information or material that the Pakistanis collected after U.S. forces left."

Pakistani officials have said bin Laden's relatives will be repatriated to their homelands after initial interrogations.

Bin Laden's 29-year-old Yemeni wife, Amal Ahmed Abdulfattah, was wounded during the raid. A U.S. official identified the others as Saudis named Khairiah Sabar, also known as Umm Hamza, and Siham Sabar, or Umm Khalid.