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Pak rejects India’s claim on Bin Laden
Islamabad, February 18
Pakistan today rejected Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee’s statement that Saudi-born fugitive militant Osama bin Laden might be hiding in the country as “totally ill-founded’’. “This is pure speculation, totally ill-founded and there is no validity or truth in this report,’’ Foreign Ministry spokesman Aziz Ahmed Khan told a news briefing when asked about the Indian Prime Minister’s remarks made at the weekend. Reuters

Probe ordered
Patna, February 18
The Bihar Government today ordered a CBI inquiry into the killing of the senior Indian Forest Service officer Sanjay Kumar Singh who was kidnapped by MCC on February 15. State Forest and Environment Minister Jagdanand Singh told reporters here that he had already forwarded the file to the Chief Minister Rabri Devi for approaching the Union Home Ministry to hand over the case to the CBI. PTI