London:
Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Monday asserted that Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden is not in Pakistan and if anyone provided information about him Pakistan would take action.
"If anyone has information about the presence of Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan, then it must be shared with our government. We would take action," Malik told newsmen in London.
His comments come in the wake of a statement by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown yesterday attacking the Pakistani leadership in exasperated tones, demanding that it "take out" Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman Zawahiri.
"The Pakistan government has started to take on the Taliban and to take on Al-Qaida in south Waziristan, but we have got to ask "ourselves why eight years after September 11, nobody has been able to spot or detain or get close to Osama bin Laden, nobody has been able to get close to Zawahiri, the number two of al-Qaeda," Brown told BBC.
Malik said, "We are facing 9/11 everyday in Pakistan. If we come to know Osama is in Pakistan, I assure you we will take action."