ISLAMABAD–Pakistan yesterday rejected allegations by America's spy chief that it is a refuge for terrorist leaders and demanded his intelligence networks share information on the whereabouts of top Al Qaeda figures said to be holed up in the country.
"We have no such information nor has any such thing been communicated to us by any U.S. authority," Pakistan's military spokesman Maj.-Gen. Shaukat Sultan said.
In an unusually direct statement, U.S. intelligence chief John Negroponte on Thursday named Pakistan as the centre of an Al Qaeda web that radiated out to the Middle East, North Africa and Europe.
Washington's ally has always contended that Osama bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al Zawahri, could be either side of the rugged, porous border with Afghanistan.
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