WASHINGTON: The United States has said it has no reason to believe that senior Pakistani officials had knowledge about the location of Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, who was killed in a US raid on his Abbottabad compound in May 2011.

“As US officials have said, we have no reason to believe that anyone in the highest levels of the government knew about the location of Bin Laden. That continues to be true,” Laura Lucas Magnuson, a spokesperson for the National Security Council, said.

The reiteration of US position by the White House spokesperson came in response to a question about allegations made in an article published in The New York Times on Wednesday that some senior Pakistani officials knew Osama’s location.