Click to play videoNew Delhi: Osama Bin Laden may actually be hiding in an urban centre rather than a mountain cave – the revelation was made by former Pakistan ISI chief, Lt General Asad Durrani. He said that Bin Laden is living in a Pakistan city.
"The reason, not only that so many of them (top al-Qaeda members) have been apprehended in or closer to the big cities is that these are the places where you can hide yourself much better,” he said.
“In the countryside or in tribal areas for that matter, which is an exaggerated form of countryside, it's difficult to hide yourself because there, people live in a manner and operate in a manner in which finding out about an unusual presence is very important," he added.
He said it was true that tribal customs placed great value on showing hospitality and not betraying a guest. "In the tribal code, anyone who seeks your protection has to be defended, if necessary with your life."
However, he added: "I am not sure over a period of four, five or six years that it would be possible even for the tribesmen to keep his presence under wraps."
Such information would have traveled or been divulged, given the incentives, Durrani said in a reference to the $25 million US bounty on bin Laden's head.
US officials have frequently said they suspect Bin Laden is hiding somewhere in the inaccessible mountains along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
(With agency inputs)
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