Pakistan Army Spokesman Major General Athar Abbas on Tuesday denied allegations about contacts between Pakistani intelligence officials and Osama Bin Laden. Talking to an Arab TV channel, he clearly rejected the so-called “leaks” issued by a private US agency and said that they were nothing but baseless fabrication. These kinds of charges were not new, as these leaks were actually “old wine in new bottle,” Abbas said. A private security agency, which worked for the CIA in the past, claimed in an e-mail that they found some documents from Bin Laden’s compound, which revealed that around 12 senior ISI officials, including a retired general, had links with Bin Laden during his hiding in the country. The names of those officials were not mentioned by the US firm in the email.
