Islamabad: Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri today (Feb 28, 2004) declined to confirm reports of Osama bin Laden's arrest.

"I cannot confirm it. They (the officials) made an effort (to capture him), but (I) cannot confirm it," Kasuri said at a joint press conference with visiting French Foreign Minister Dominique Devilpan in Islamabad, when asked about the reports of bin Laden's capture.