Washington, Apr.13 (ANI): Rejecting reports that Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden is hiding somewhere in the ungoverned mountainous tribal region along the Afghan border, Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that even if Laden would have been hiding there, he could not have escaped Pakistani security forces offensive.
"Certainly he is not in Pakistan. Our military actions are very successful. He would have been arrested or... I even don't know whether he is alive or not," Gilani told a US television channel during his visit to Washington to take part in the two-day nuclear security summit.
Earlier, interacting with media persons during a roundtable meeting, Gilani said he does not favour negotiations with the Taliban and stressed that Pakistan would continue to fight the extremists with full force.
"I am not in favour of the negotiations with Taliban because at times we talk about good Taliban and bad Taliban. I always believe that militants are the militants. They just want to destabilize the system," The News quoted Gilani, as saying.
Commenting on India's consistent demand of doing more against the 26/11 perpetrators, Gilani said Islamabad needed more evidence from New Delhi about the Lashkar-e-Taiba's involvement in the November 2008 Mumbai carnage.
Emphatically stating that Pakistani soil would not be used for extremist activity, and particularly for attacks on neighbouring India, Gilani said: "We don't want our soil used against any country and neither would we allow somebody else's soil to be used against Pakistan." (ANI)
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