Pakistan Asks People for Word on Bin Laden

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Pakistan Asks People for Word on Bin Laden

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Pakistan appealed to its people on Sunday for information that could help in the hunt for Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden and 17 associates, calling them "mischief-makers" as defined by the Koran.

The appeal was made in an advertisement placed by the Interior Ministry in the mass-circulation Urdu-language daily Jang, offering confidentiality for informants, but no reward.

The advertisement was placed days after the first Pakistani military casualties in a clash with suspected militants of bin Laden's al Qaeda network in a remote tribal area of Pakistan near the Afghan border.

"These people are dangerous religious terrorists," said a headline over the pictures of bin Laden, his senior lieutenant Ayman al-Zawahiri and 16 other alleged militants.

The advertisement quoted verses of the Koran, one of which read "Allah does not like mischief-makers."

This was the first advertisement issued by the Pakistani government seeking bin Laden's arrest. It assured potential informants their identities would kept secret and army officers would take their calls on special telephone lines.

It offered no cash reward, unlike an advertisement placed in several national dailies on Saturday that carried photographs of 10 alleged militants suspected of carrying out recent bombings in the port city of Karachi and offered rewards totaling 20 million rupees ($320,000).

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