WANA, Pakistan (AFP) - A pro-government tribal leader hailed by Pakistan for expelling foreign militants from a troubled frontier region said Friday he would protect Osama bin Laden if he sought shelter with him. Mullah Mohammad Nazir told a rare press conference in Wana, the main town in South Waziristan tribal district, that he had never met the Al-Qaeda chief but would help him in line with local traditions. "Bin Laden has never come to this area but if he comes here and seeks our protection then according to tribal laws and customs we will protect him," the 32-year-old former Taliban commander said. "Our traditions and customs demand that we support the oppressed," added Nazir, who was flanked by heavily-armed gunmen. Bin Laden carries a 25-million-dollar US bounty on his head and is accused of masterminding the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States which killed nearly 3,000 people. US officials have repeatedly said they believe that the Saudi is hiding in the rugged tribal belt straddling the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, where conservative ethnic Pashtun tribes hold sway. Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf said on April 12 that tribal fighters commanded by Nazir and backed by the army had killed 300 Uzbek and other foreign Al-Qaeda-linked militants in the past month. The Pakistani tribesmen had sheltered the Uzbeks after the fall of Afghanistan's Taliban regime in 2001 but fell out violently with them in mid-March and launched a bid to drive them out. Musharraf said Nazir's actions vindicated Islamabad's policy of signing peace deals with formerly Taliban-supporting tribesmen, including a pact inked in South Waziristan in 2005. Western nations with nearly 50,000 troops in Afghanistan have criticised the deals, saying they create a safe haven for the Taliban and that attacks by the militants have risen as a result. Nazir, who comes from the Wazir tribe that gives Waziristan its name, said that Pakistan tribesmen were not involved in the "jihad" against NATO and US soldiers. "No one is going over to Afghanistan from here to fight with the US forces. There are Wazir tribes over there (in Afghanistan) as well and they are fighting from their own land," he said. But Nazir added that he and his men would "fight the US and the infidel forces if they come and attack our territory." Pakistan has categorically refused permission for the US-led coalition and NATO-led International Security Assistance Force to pursue Taliban rebels onto its territory, saying that it is a sovereign nation. However, there have been several missile strikes in the Pakistani tribal belt attributed to US forces, including one in January 2006 that officials said had narrowly missed Bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri.
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