HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR: Pakistani officials, though, are telling a slightly different story about Osama bin Laden today. For that, we take you straight to our Islamabad bureau chief, Ash-har Quraishi, on the videophone. Ash-har -- what are Pakistani officials saying this morning?</s>ASH-HAR QURAISHI, CNN ISLAMABAD BUREAU CHIEF: Well, Heidi, we're hearing straight-up denials from the highest levels of government here in Pakistan. Also intelligence sources telling us that there has been no focused hunt. There's been no focused special operation being carried out anywhere in Pakistan looking for bin Laden. Now, they've been saying also that they have stepped up their security. They are looking into the possibility of where he might be, where remnants of al Qaeda are. The intelligence is active, according to the president, who talked to us yesterday. But they say that there has been no focus on a specific area where bin Laden might be hiding. Now, one senior government official said even if we knew where bin Laden was, he says, would we let the media know about it before we got him? We also hear that they are telling us that they have seen some movement by Special Forces by American soldiers on the other side of the border in Afghanistan, concentrating across the border from the Baluchistan province in Spin Boldak, but they say that there is no focused hunt here in Pakistan. They are generally monitoring the situation all over the country, though -- Heidi.</s>COLLINS: All right, Ash-har Quraishi coming to us from Islamabad this morning. Thanks for the update there. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com. bin Laden>
Pakistan Denies Special Operation Under Way in Hunt for bin Laden