ISLAMABAD – Pakistani authorities have brought charges against Osama bin Laden’s three widows for illegally entering and living in the country, the interior minister said yesterday.
The al-Qaeda leader was killed in a secret raid by US special forces in the garrison town of Abbottabad in May last year after a decade-long manhunt. His three wives and an undisclosed number of children were among the 16 people detained by Pakistani authorities after the raid. “They were presented before the court. After that, they are on judicial remand, and are being kept in a proper, legal manner,” minister Rehman Malik said. “Cases have been registered against the adults, not the children.” Two of the wives are Saudi nationals, and one is from Yemen. – (Reuters)