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Osama bin Laden With "Friends" in Pakistan
Thursday, December 27, 2001
Associated Newspapers Ltd

Riaz Durrani, central information secretary for Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, said: "We support the Taliban, but never had any connection with Osama bin Laden. Maulana Fazal-ur Rehman is under detention for the last three months. How can he or his party do this?"

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Osama bin Laden, on the run from the US-led coalition against terrorism, is believed to be with "friends" of a Pakistani religious party leader.

Mohammad Abeel, spokesman for Afghanistan's defence ministry, says Bin Laden is believed to be with friends of Maulana Fazal-ur Rehman, a Pakistani Islamic activist in a border area of the country. He did not elaborate.

Maulana Fazal-ur Rehman is the leader of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, a powerful Pakistani religious party sympathetic to Afghanistan's deposed Taliban militia.
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