Pakistan allows Osama family to leave

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has allowed family of Osama bin Laden to leave the country, said a local newspaper on Tuesday.

The Yemeni brother-in-law of the slain al-Qaida chief has arrived in Pakistan to shift his two Yemeni widows, reported "Jang ", a widely-circulated Urdu daily newspaper in Pakistan.

The American military had killed Osama bin Laden in Abbotabad in May 2011, where he is believed to have lived for nearly five years.  

A commission investigating the US raid and presence of the al- Qaida chief in Pakistan has allowed the Osama family members to leave Pakistan as they were no more required for questioning. The commission members had interviewed widows of Osama as part of the investigation.

Three widows of the al-Qaida chief and their children are in the custody of the Pakistani security agencies.

The report said that brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden is busy in preparing documents for two Yemeni widows of the al-Qaida chief. They will be shifted to Yemen.

There is no official confirmation of the report.

The daily quoted official sources as saying that the Osama family members have been shifted from a "safe house" of the security agencies to another place in Islamabad.

Police commandos have been deployed for their protection, the report said.

The daily reported that the family could leave Pakistan in a couple of days.

Saudi authorities have refused to accept the Saudi widow of Osama bin Laden, the daily said.

The US commandoes had handed over all the family members of Osama bin Laden after the 40-minute raid on Osama's compound in Abbottabad on May 2, 2011.

The security forces razed to ground the compound of Osama bin Laden late last month as it had been emerging a security concern in view of the daily visit of hundreds of people to the compound, which is located just two kilometers from Pakistan's major military academy.