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Pakistani President: â€œOur intelligence agencies think Osama bin Laden could be deadâ€

27 April 2009 14:16 (UTC +04:00)

Islamabad â€“ APA. Pakistani intelligence agencies have a suspicion that Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden could be dead, President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari told journalists, APA reports. He said U.S. officials had told him that they had no trace of the al Qaeda chief and the same view was shared by his own intelligence agencies. "There is no news," the president said. "They obviously feel that he does not exist anymore but that’s not confirmed, we can’t confirm that," he said, referring to Pakistani intelligence agencies.
Zardari said Pakistan had a strong command-and-control system for its nuclear weapons that was fully in place. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said last week that the United States could not contemplate the possibility of the Taliban taking control of Pakistan’s nuclear assets.