ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has set up an elite military force to hunt down Taliban and al-Qaeda fugitives in the country's remote tribal regions bordering Afghanistan, the president was quoted as saying yesterday.
But President Gen Pervez Musharraf dismissed reports that an operation by the new commando force last weekend in the border regions of north-western Pakistan was a hunt for Osama bin Laden.
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