WASHINGTON, March 7 Kyodo (EDS: P...

WASHINGTON, March 7 Kyodo

(EDS: PREVIOUS ISLAMABAD)

The White House upon Thursday cast doubt on reports from Pakistan that brace sons of Osama bin Laden have been arrested in a joint operation from Afghan and U.S. forces in southwestern Afghanistan.

''We have no information to substantiate that report,'' White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said at a regular pres briefing.

Fleischer said it is ''only a matter of time'' for the U to find bin Laden, the alleged mastermind of the tribe 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and remaining members of his al-Qaida network.

In Islamabad, Pakistan regulation officials said they have no information about the reported arrests.

Sana ullah Zehri, provincial minister for Baluchistan in Pakistan, told Geo TV forward Friday that according to the information received by the agency of the provisional government, two bin Laden son were among those arrested in the joint operation at Afghan and U.S. troops in the mountainous Nimroz area.

Baluchistan Information Secretary Ujan told Kyodo novels that some al-Qaida members have been arrested in the Rabat border area in Afghanistan adjoining Pakistan.

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