Pakistan leaders hold emergency talks: spokesman

ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday convened emergency talks with his prime minister and security chiefs in Islamabad following US confirmation that Osama bin Laden had been killed.

The meeting between President Zardari, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and the heads of "relevant departments and agencies" ended a short while ago, presidency spokesman Farhatullah Babar told AFP.

There has been silence from the civil and military administration on the pre-dawn operation conducted in the northwestern Pakistani town of Abbottabad.

"The foreign office will issue a formal statement of the government of Pakistan on the Osama bin Laden incident," he said.