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Politics : Idea Of The Day
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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (45620)3/1/2004 3:08:36 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF  Read Replies (1) of 50167
 
Pakistan flatly denied on Monday a report that it had struck a deal to allow U.S. troops to hunt for al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden on its territory.



"This report has no truth in it and there is no such deal," military spokesman Major-General Shaukat Sultan said.

The latest issue of the New Yorker weekly said thousands of U.S. troops would be deployed in a tribal area bordering Afghanistan in return for Washington's support for Islamabad's pardon last month of Abdul Qadeer Khan, a scientist who admitted leaking nuclear secrets to Iran, Libya and North Korea .

The article quoted a former senior intelligence official as saying it was "a quid pro quo" deal with Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf. "We're going to get our troops inside Pakistan in return for not forcing Musharraf to deal with Khan."

Sultan rejected this, saying: "There are no quid pro quos on issues of national sovereignty. We totally deny it."

He said he could not comment on reports that the United States planned to shift an elite commando unit that took part in the capture of Saddam Hussein in Iraq to hunt for bin Laden.

"If the U.S. is shifting a special unit from Iraq into Afghanistan, I have no comment on that, but there is none coming in to Pakistan," he said.
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