ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Tuesday denied it had received any formal request from US officials for permission to question three widows of Osama bin Laden.
Bin Laden's two Saudi wives, one Yemeni spouse and several children were captured on May 2 by Pakistani intelligence agencies after US commandoes left his compound in Abbottabad with the al-Qaeda chief's body.
A report on CBS News television Monday in the United States cited US officials as saying that Pakistan had granted their government access to the three widows.
"The USA has not so far formally requested to have access to bin Laden's widows," Pakistani Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir said. "We will consider the issue when they put up a formal request."
US embassy spokesman Alberto Rodriguez said he was not aware whether the US had requested access to the women.
"I have also seen the media reports, but I have no information,"
he said.
Amal al-Sadeh, the youngest of the three widows and a Yemeni national, provided some information during investigations by Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), some of which was leaked to the local media.
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