Pakistan Monday denied reports that the United States is imposing pressure on it to capture Osamabin Laden prior to the US presidential campaign.

The country's Foreign Office spokesman Masood Khan said here ata weekly news briefing that there is no "deadline" for the hunt from the US.

The false media reports, said the spokesman, were based on two assumptions--firstly, the US and Pakistan have been well-informed on the whereabouts of the terror Czar; secondly, the fight againstterror is Pakistan's own business.

But the fact is that no one knows for sure where the al-Qaida chief is hiding out, said the spokesman, adding that the hunt for bin Laden needs an international coordinated effort.

Pakistan and Afghanistan share an over 2,500-km porous border. Since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2002, many terror fugitives, assumedly including Laden, have sneaked into Pakistan'stribal areas from across the border.

Pakistani military has since been trying to net the remnants hiding out in this border belt.

Source: Xinhua