Pakistan on Monday played down comments by a top U.S. counterterrorism official that progress has been made recently in the hunt for Osama bin Laden.
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Information Minister Shaikh Rashid Ahmed described the remarks by J. Cofer Black the U.S. State Department coordinator for counterterrorism who visited Pakistan last week as a "political statement."
"We don't have any information about bin Laden," Ahmed told The Associated Press.