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Pakistan denies report of Osama's dialysis

Islamabad on Tuesday denied American media reports that Osama bin Laden underwent dialysis at a military hospital in Pakistan a day before the September 11 attacks and said it 'smelt an Indian plot' behind it.

This is a story "tailormade" to disgrace Pakistan, defence spokesman Major General Rashid Qureshi said, denying the CBS television report.

He told reporters that soon after he heard the story on Monday night, he spoke to officials of two military hospitals, which had such facilities, and they denied that the terror suspect ever visited them.

Qureshi, however, said he had called for records of the two centres in order to ascertain the facts.

He said he smelt an Indian plot behind the CBS story, as he read it first in an Indian newspaper Web site.

Qureshi said he had never heard or seen any reports that bin Laden had visited Pakistan.

"I heard of rumours that he was in Sudan and Afghanistan. I have never seen a report that he was in Pakistan," he said.

The spokesman also denied reports that the Karachi airport had been handed over to the US.

The airport was being used by coalition partners, as Pakistan was chosen as the gateway for all international assistance being sent for the reconstruction of Afghanistan, he said.

Most of the equipment and supplies were being brought to Karachi in wide-bodied civilian aircraft from different parts of the world and transported to Afghanistan in smaller aircraft, he said.

PTI

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