'No asylum for Osama, Omar'

By B. Muralidhar Reddy

ISLAMABAD, NOV. 17. Pakistan today said it would not grant political asylum to either Osama bin Laden or the Taliban chief, Mullah Mohammad Omar.

The Pakistan Foreign Office spokesman, Mr. Aziz Khan, responding to a specific question, dismissed the suggestion that Pakistan, only country that still allows a Taliban embassy, would grant asylum to the two if sought under the relevant Geneva Convention.

``The Geneva Convention cannot be applied so simply that everybody can (get asylum),'' Mr. Khan said. ``The country giving asylum takes a decision under international laws as well as its own laws... So far as these persons you have mentioned (are concerned), we have made it clear that they will not be given asylum.''

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