Islamabad: Dismissing the suggestion that Pakistan was avoiding the arrests of al-Qaida leaders, President Pervez Musharraf said on September 24 that Islamabad was conducting operation to nab Osama bin Laden and other operatives of his terror network with the assistance of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

"This is an absolutely and totally wrong perception," Musharraf said about perception that Pakistan was avoiding the arrests.

Pakistan was being assisted by the CIA in efforts to locate Osama and other al-Qaida members in the mountains, Musharraf told CNN.

"And they (CIA) know exactly what is happening on ground. Sometimes they get close to him and then suddenly this man disappears," the President said.

Musharraf said he was not worried at all that there is any danger to him or his government from al-Qaida.

"There is no such danger at all, this is not the reality," he added.

Asked can Pakistan send its troops to Iraq under the present circumstances he said currently the country's conditions are not conducive and there is a very strong domestic opposition to it.

PTI