Bin Laden living comfortably in Pakistan, reports CNN

Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden is living comfortably in a house in northwest Pakistan close to his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri, CNN yesterday quoted a Nato official as saying.
The Saudi-born militant wanted for the September 11 attacks on the United States nine years ago is being protected by local people and "some members of the Pakistani intelligence services," the television network said.
It also said that the al-Qaeda number two, the Egyptian-born Zawahiri, was living close to him.
"Nobody in al-Qaeda is living in a cave," the unnamed senior Nato official is quoted as saying in a report datelined Kabul.
Bin Laden is likely to have moved around an area ranging from the mountains of Chitral near the Chinese border to the Kurram valley near Afghanistan's Tora Bora in recent years, CNN reported the official as saying.
Pakistan's tribal belt of Kurram and six other districts spanning 27,220 square kilometres (10,510 square miles) lies outside government control, and has long been suspected by Western intelligence to be bin Laden's hiding place.
"The official also confirmed the US assessment that Mullah Omar, the leader of the Taliban, has moved between the cities of Quetta and Karachi in Pakistan over the last several months," said the report on CNN's website.
Pakistani authorities deny they are providing protection for the terror mastermind bin Laden, who has a 25-million-dollar US bounty on his head.
"I categorically deny the report about the presence of Osama bin Laden or Ayman al-Zawahiri or even Mullah Omar in Pakistan," Interior Minister Rehman Malik told reporters on Monday.
"Bin Laden... and all other terrorists are anti-Islam and anti-Pakistan and hired assassins. If we have any information we will take action against them," he said.