Pakistan does not need US-led coalition forces based in Afghanistan to help them capture al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden on home soil, an official said on Tuesday.
"If Osama bin Laden's presence is confirmed in any part of our area adjoining Afghanistan, or for that matter anywhere in Pakistan, we have these troops stationed there to carry out that job," the governor of North Western Frontier Province, Ali Muhammad Jan Aurakzai, told a press conference.
"We have not deployed our 80,000 troops for nothing. They are there for a purpose," Aurakzai said. He rejected media reports that US-led forces said they could cross the border at will in hot pursuit of bin Laden or other wanted suspects.
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