Laden on the move, Indian intelligence on alert

Union home ministry officials have been intimated about the news report which appeared in Thursday's edition of a Lahore-based newspaper. Reuters has quoted the newspaper as saying that Laden has "left Afghanistan for the rugged mountainous border areas between Pakistan and China" and that "there are reports that he has thereafter moved from a Chinese area to Ladakh and a Tibetan area of India"( sic).

The newspaper, quoting "reports received by US intelligence agencies", went on to state that the al-Qaeda chief could be sheltered by tribal lords in the area which is "considered the world's most difficult terrain".