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Wednesday, May 11, 2011
No US request to access Osama’s family: FOWASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD: The United States said on Tuesday it expects Pakistan will “soon” let it question three widows of Osama bin Laden while Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry said it had yet to receive a formal request from the US in this regard. Bin Laden’s Yemeni wife has told Pakistani investigators that they lived in the compound where her spouse was killed in the garrison town of Abbottabad for five years. US investigators want to question his three wives as they seek to roll up his global militant network. “Pakistanis now appear willing to grant access. Hopefully, they’ll carry through on the signals they’re sending,” said a US official familiar with the matter in Washington. But, a Pakistani government official denied that permission for the US questioning of the women had been given, saying local investigators had yet to finish their inquiry. Pakistan Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Tehmina Janjua said, “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has not received a formal request from the US.” She also said that no extradition requests had been received from the countries of origin of bin Laden’s wives – Yemen and Saudi Arabia. agencies
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk