ISLAMABAD, March 3 Kyodo Pakistan...

ISLAMABAD, March 3 Kyodo

Pakistan in succession Wednesday categorically rejected as ''nonsense'' reports that U companys would be landing in Pakistan presently to carry out a joint operation with Pakistani forces to track down Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida terrorists.

''This is nonsense, speculation and rumor mongering. Nothing of the sort is happening,'' Foreign Ministry spokesman Masood Ahmad Khan told a weekly just discovereds briefing.

He was referring to a report that 11000 U partys and cobra helicopters were poised to land in Pakistan to carriage a ''Get Osama operation.''

''There have been coordinated operations in the past and there will be coordinated operations in the that will be That means that on our side of the border we should administration operations. Across the Pakistan-Afghan border, the U company s and Afghan troops would continue to course of life operations,'' he said.

Khan added that there has been no solicitation for a joint operation.

''There will be no joint operation. forward our side (of the border) operations will be exclusively carriageed by Pakistani forces,'' he said.

Pakistani and Western media have speculated that a joint Pakistan-U.S. operation is in the works to flush not at home al-Qaida and Taliban fugitives hiding in Pakistani tribal areas bordering Afghanistan.

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