Islamabad : Locals of Chak Shah Mohammad, a small village near Haripur town in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, have denied ever having seen al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden there.
The Saudi-born terrorist, who had evaded capture for a decade, was killed on May 2 in a top secret operation involving a small team of US Special Forces in Abbottabad city, located 50 kilometres northeast of Islamabad and 150 kilometres east of Peshawar.
Bin Laden's Yemeni wife Amal al-Sadah- one of three wives now in Pakistani custody since the raid on Monday- told investigators that the Al Qaeda founder had lived with his family for nearly two and a half years in Chak Shah Mohammad.
Following her claim, hundreds of media persons from various television channels converged on Chak Shah Mohammad, but found no place in the tiny village where bin Laden could have lived.
Former Nazims, Haji Abdus Salam Khan and Khurshid Khan, told reporters that the place did not suit a man like bin Laden, and that there was just no possibility that the terrorist ever lived there.
They said everyone knew about their neighbours in a small village like Chak Shah Mohammad, but nobody had ever seen or even suspected that the world's most wanted terrorist was living there.
"This is not a safe place from the security point of view," The Nation quoted the Nazims, as saying.
Chak Shah Mohammad has only about 200-250 houses, most of them made of mud. There are also some caves there, which are part of the local culture. ANI
