Bin Laden seen on Afghan-Pakistan border this year: BBC report

The detainee said he met a contact at that time who told him he had come from a meeting with bin Laden, the BBC said on its Web site. The contact was a Mehsud tribesman who helps operatives reach the al-Qaeda leader, it said.

The contact is from Ghazni province in Afghanistan and the detainee said he believed that was where the meeting took place. The BBC said it was given access to the detainee twice in the past month with a Pakistani interrogator present. The claims of the meeting can't be verified, it said.

Pakistan has rejected U.S. assertions that bin Laden is probably in Pakistan, saying he is most likely in Afghanistan. Thousands of Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters sought shelter in Pakistan's tribal region after the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, and Pakistani forces have recently stepped up operations against them.

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