Aziz denies existence of terror camps in Pak soil

Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz's comments came a day after a federal judge in Sacramento, California, refused to grant bail to Hamid Hayat, 22, and his father, Umer Hayat, 47.

The men, both Americans, were arrested this week on charges of lying to federal investigators after what the FBI said was an investigation into possible connections between some residents of the predominantly Pakistani community of Lodi, south of Sacramento, and Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network.

A federal prosecutor has said the younger Hayat traveled repeatedly to Pakistan where he "learned to kill Americans."

Umer Hayat said his son was drawn to jihadi training camps in his early teenage years while attending a madrassa, or religious school, in Rawalpindi, a city near Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, according to an FBI affidavit.

But Aziz said Saturday there are no terrorist training facilities in Pakistan. "There are no such camps," he said.